Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.

When the farm animals seem to catch the flu one after another, a young boy does his best to take care of them.

These best friends are ready for new adventures! Meeting a bat? They're on it! Getting lost in a labyrinth? Might be scary. Each day is new and exciting for these two beetles, and together they'll face challenges and help their friends along the way.

"It has been more than thirty years since the term 'flash fiction' was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest installment in the popular Flash Fiction series, James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne have searched far and wide for the most distinctive American voices in short-short fiction. The 73 stories...

Sandlot: It's the early 1960s and fifth-grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his folks. Kids call him a dork -- he can't even throw a baseball! But that changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast and its owner who live behind the left field fence. Sandlot...