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.

Eleven-year-old Lucky is worried that the nomadic life he and his father share will come to an end in Provo, Utah, when his father begins seeing a woman with a hostile twelve-year-old son.

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.

Disaster strikes when goalie Nate Matheson is injured. Can Jared Trajillo learn to play goalie in time for the championship game--and will Nate let him? Angel Park Soccer #5.

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.

Is there such a thing as playing it too safe? Angel Park Pride fullback Sterling Malone finds that the sweetest victories sometimes come from taking major chances. Angel Park Soccer #3.

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

Second-string point guard Jackie Willis knows that she handles the ball better than the starter. Does the coach have it in for black players, or does he just not want girls in his starting lineup? Angel Park Hoop #2.

Lately, 3rd-grade-rookie Anthony Ruiz has been losing his concentration when he gets into a real game, and the other players are giving him a hard time. So the coach asks Harlan, who''s improved tremendously since last year, to work with Anthony, and he discovers that the rookie''s parents are getting divorced. . . . Illustrated.

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.

Grade Level 6.1, Book # 5376, Points 4.

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.

Recently settled in the Mormon community of Far West in northern Missouri, sixteen-year-old Joseph Williams begins to fear that the growing hostility of the old settlers towards the Mormons will force them to move again.

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.

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

Three third-grade rookies who make the Little League baseball team aren''t immediately accepted by the older players.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.