is the story of a young girl, Emily, who ulitmately teaches her best friend to dance using baseball moves. Before that Howie, a skilled ballplayer, but a dancing klutz, has broken his grandmother's vase and injured his mother and sister in futile attempts to learn.
Emily and Howie are on opposites sides in a school debate over the atomic bombing of Japan. Emily wants her first kiss on her sixteenth birthday, but Howie still does not realize that he is her boyfriend. (rough draft)
Rosa Rojo escapes from the Spain in an oxcart with the front wheels lowered, driven by a boy named Chevy. She is accompanied by a dwarf in leathers riding a hog called Harley and assisted by a wizard who can see the future in walnuts - except people keep eating them. (Incomplete work in progress)
