Hughes, Dean

When Jeff Reinhold breaks his arm, a small Asian boy named Lian Jie becomes the new second baseman.

Because Lian Jie is so small, no one on the Dodgers takes him seriously, until they realize he's a baseball expert.

Members of the Angel Park community wonder where Coach Wilkens's loyalties lie when he helps players on rival teams before the championship baseball game.

Brian Waters is so nervous that he can't seem to do anything right on his little league team, the Angel Park Dodgers, but a pep talk from a big league star psyches him up to make a winning catch.

When the Angel Park Dodgers get so rattled by the Reds that they can hardly play baseball, rookie Jacob attempts to relax them with meditation exercises he finds in a sports psychology book.

Feeling unwanted, an eleven-year-old orphan runs away from his foster home and lives on the streets until he finds a new type of family at a hotel.

Two twelve-year-old boys, one black and one white, train for and compete in the 400 meter race, but find it hard to become friends because of racial differences and their fathers' past relationship.

Nutty runs for a second term as student council president against his arch-rival Mindy and encounters dirty tricks.

While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.

Assigned to play center in the starting lineup of his basketball team because he is tall, fifth grader Harlan feels pressure to perform well and tries to develop some self-confidence.