![]() Did Hank Aaron once stay where Theo lives? Theo tells of his first weeks in Destiny in a not-completely-convincing first-person, present-tense narrative that moves quickly through the days, culminating in his accompanying a dance recital and finding a way to stay as well as a possible Hank Aaron sighting. She enlists him in a project to find evidence of major league baseball players who lived in town 20 years earlier. Theo also finds a friend in classmate Anabel Johnson, who loathes dance but loves baseball. But in Rest Easy, their new rooming house, Theo finds a piano to play and a determined landlady, dance teacher Miss Sister Grandersole, who encourages his musical gift just as energetically as his angry uncle discourages it. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Uncle Raymond, a Vietnam vet still hurting from the war and from his dead sister’s anti-war activities, brings orphaned Theo to Destiny in May 1974, he warns him not to get attached. Music and baseball history combine to convince sixth-grader Thelonious Monk Thomas that Destiny, Florida, should be his hometown. ![]()
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