Weaver turned his ample talents to young adult fiction after a highly successful adult novel and story collection, and the result is a trio of books built around the central character of Billy Baggs; books containing the same nuance of detail and depth of characterization as his adult fiction. Billy is a farm boy for whom baseball becomes a release, a passion, a metaphor for life's potentials. But Weaver's are not simply baseball books. "They are not play-by-play sports novels," Weaver told
Authors and Artists for Young Adults (
AAYA) in an interview. "The score of the game is not what is important. It is the
human game that is important."
Red Barn, White House
Raised on a dairy farm near Park Rapids, Minnesota, Weaver knows intimately whereof he writes. "I grew up in the upper Midwest," Weaver told AAYA, "on a traditional dairy farm--a red barn with a white house on one-hundred and sixty acres." One of three children, Weaver attended the local country school.
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