New Releases by Dean Hughes

For nine months, Darci Pierce, an infertile 19-year-old woman, managed to convince her husband that she was pregnant. On the day she said her baby was due, Pierce strangled Cindy Lynn Ray, a nine-months-pregnant woman chosen for her resemblance to Pierce, cut open Ray's abdomen and womb with a car key, and took her nearly full-term baby.

A black boy from Los Angeles has some trouble fitting in with the twelve-and-under basketball team in his new, mostly white neighborhood in Angel Park.

The Angel Park Pride must learn to play not as a group of talented individuals, but as a single unit, if they are to win the championship.

Lucky, an eleven-year-old Mormon who travels frequently with his father, joins forces with a girl detective in Missouri to investigate a strange boy who may be a thief.

The Angel Park players are so nervous about winning their upcoming "big game" with Blue Spring that they mess up all over the place.

Follows the members of the Angel Park Dodgers Little League team through their second season as they discuss batting averages, RBIs, and Jonathan Swingle, the new superstar and super braggart.

When Jacob loses his lucky charm, he's convinced he'll never be able to bat, field, or throw again until he finds it.

Goalie Nate has a problem. He's got to get his teammates to think about defense as well as offense. Angel Park Soccer #2.

Eleven-year-old Nutty, hoping to improve his image with his fellow fifth graders, finds his popularity unexpectedly boosted when he gets a small part in a Hollywood movie.

The Dodgers make their way to the regional championship, up against the toughest team in California.

Sixth grader Jenny Roper, the Dodgers' star first baseman, suddenly becomes concerned about her reputation as a jock.

While staying in a Boston suburb with a family of Mormons like himself, eleven-year-old Lucky tries to break through the shell of their unfriendly son while enduring unwanted attention from the local bully.

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.

Kenny, the rookie star of Angel Park's Little League baseball team, finds himself in a major slump because he's trying too hard.

Harlan Sloan, a rookie on the Little League baseball team, gets his first big base hit.

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.

Called "rookie star" by the town paper, third-grader Kenny Sandoval, talented first baseman for the Angel Park Dodgers, is determined to prove that the name has not gone to his head.

After finding mysterious plans in their hotel bathroom, Nutty and his friends must avoid both imposters who want the papers and danger on the ski slopes.

Lucky's attempts to befriend a black football player at his new school help him break through racial barriers.

A person with a million ideas, most of which don't work out, Jelly's latest is to have a circus--only his friends have problems learning their roles.

Fifth-grader, Nutty Nutsell, produces another memorable science fair project when his partner, William Bilks, transfers photons of light to Nutty's brain, causing a personality change and his head to glow in the dark.

A young Mormon from Utah becomes a major-league pitcher, but must come to grips with the idea that other things may be more important than winning a baseball game.

" ... Captures the frustrations and doubts of two periods of life--teenagers on the verge of manhood and boys leaving behind their childhood"--Inside front dust-jacket.

A fifth-grade boy running for school president is forced to make some important decisions regarding the amount of manipulation he should allow from his "genius" campaign manager.

When Nutty investigates the disappearance of the school Christmas fund from his locker, he and his friends run into a bunch of thieves as well as a more surprising solution.

After finding mysterious plans in their hotel bathroom, Nutty and his friends must avoid impostors who want the papers while tangling with danger on the ski slopes.

Fifth-grader Myron takes his teacher's lesson on the importance of honesty very seriously and becomes absolutely honest at all times. He is confused by the hostility his new attitude provokes in the community.