ASIN: B007RZJDKY
Publisher: Greg Liles
Pages: 136
Stella, Kenny, and Bud: The Complete Story, is a tale of love and the love of baseball shared amongst a trio of eleven-year-olds who grow up in a small, rural mining community in the mid-sixties. Hooper’s Landing is snuggled amongst the woodlands and hills of southeastern Kentucky and is home to a small populace of impoverished, hard-working people. Kids here do the same things as kids in other places do: they go fishing, and swimming, and they play baseball.Stella, a cute tomboy with an impish vein and an outstanding pitching arm, wrinkles her nose in times of angst to signal those around her that she is about to go into action. At these times, she is as likely to deliver a sizzling fastball, as she is to land a jolting blow to someone’s midsection. Kenny plays second base and sometimes recognizes the signs that Stella gives and sometimes he does not. To Kenny, bruised ribs are a fair ...
