"HOMEMADE ICE CREAM" said one reviewer of the Summers Run Series, adding, "there's a little Norman Rockwell" mixed in a baseball book that's not a sports story.

Yes, it's about farm boys and their Little League team, but "The Boys of Summers Run, " follows Claude and his friends through the more serious lessons from life and loss while they "build their dreams from grass and sand."

After the death of his father, Major Blake Kinkade, in Kuwait, Claude Kinkade and his mother, Daisy, arrive with their hopes teetering at the Kinkade's National Historic Farm, Shadeland. Here Claude traces...