Twelve-year-old House Jackson--star pitcher and team captain of the Aurora County All-Stars--has been sidelined for a whole sorry year with a broken elbow.
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Now House must face the pageant\'s director, full-of-herself Frances Shotz (his nemesis and perpetrator of the elbow break), and get his team out of this mess.
He\'s finally ready to play, but wouldn\'t you know that the team\'s only game of the year has been scheduled for the exact same time as the town\'s 200th-anniversary pageant.
Twelve-year-old House Jackson--star pitcher and team captain of the Aurora County All-Stars--has been sidelined for a whole sorry year with a broken elbow