Most Popular Books by Dean Hughes

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.

Thirteen-year-old Kim is a star in softball, basketball, and volleyball, but when she begins playing soccer she fears she will let the team down.

Eleven-year-old Sterling Malone tries out for quarterback because his father thinks African-Americans need to prove they can be leaders, but Sterling isn''t sure he wants to be a leader.

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.

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.

Disaster strikes when goalie Nate Metheson is injured. Can Jared Trajillo be ready to play goalie in time for the championship game--and will Nate let him?

In an easy-to-read format, here is a collection of useful pointers for the Little League set.

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.

Brad loves baseball and wants to be a star player like his best friend, Butter, but he''s probably the worst player on the whole team. When the big game arrives, will Brad strike out or become a home-run hero?

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.

Presents the lives and accomplishments of Latter-Day Saints missionaries past and present.

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 his father is nearly killed in the aftermath of an earthquake, the incident helps Lucky accept the possibility that his father may remarry.

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

During a visit to Hawaii, twelve-year-old Lucky gets windsurfing lessons from an older, more muscular boy and tries to build up his own body after meeting a beautiful girl at the local Mormon church.

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.

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.

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

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.