Dansville High School LMC

The Youngest Hero
Jerry B. Jenkins

Miriam Woodell realizes that the hometown hero she married, though charming and athletic, is gripped by a dangerous darkness. She has no choice but to save herself and Elgin, her young son by leaving rural Mississippi for the big, cold city of Chicago. Miriam struggles to survive, while Elgin pursues a seemingly impossible dream. Despite staggering odds, Elgin at age 11 plays baseball like a high school star. Yet Elgin still has to come to grips with his father, whose life has reached a dead end. With a new man entering Miriam's life and scouts wooing Elgin, mother and son must learn painful lessons about themselves, about each other, and about the people they are forced to trust.