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Aaron chats with Sandra Headen, whose new middle-grade novel “Warrior on the Mound” (published by Holiday House) is about a youth baseball team that gets caught up in the civil rights struggle in 1930s North Carolina – with cameo appearances by some real-life Negro League stars.

Visit SandraHeaden.com for more on Sandra and the book.

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