But what really has fans on the edge of their seats is "The Kid's" fastball.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

This piece from "Billy the Kid: Ballet Suite" is called "Street in a Frontier Town."

VOA: special.2009.06.21

One was about the life of a famous gunfighter called Billy the Kid.

VOA: special.2011.08.14

You came down in my dressing room and you said, 'Kid,this ain't your night.' We're going for the price on Wilson?'

VOA: special.2009.11.30

"When I was just a small kid I went to Corning Glass works and watched the glass blowers there and was really mesmerized by that.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

But over time, we slowly got used to it and we try to make it as kid friendly as possible because kids are what we gear towards and they're the most important people that come through."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Still,she says her books reflect the Nancy Drew stories that she read as a child: "Things that I read as a kid keep cropping up in my own work whether I realize it or not.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

"As a kid I never liked bread." "I grew up in the 1950 and 1960s with this horrible cellophane-wrapped pre-sliced white bread.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

(No Transcripts) "Maybe a story I told a long time ago that kid will carry with him, and he'll make the right choice."

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

"You start hearing that bad kid telling the next kid, 'That's not the right way,'" The boxing gym unites young people from across Washington.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

He started even earlier. "When I was a little kid, I found a couple of traps washed up on the beach and I was mesmerized by it,you know.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

"I'm in my 50s, and I went to see him at the Forum here in California , I believe it was about 1969, and I was just a young kid myself."

VOA: standard.2009.06.28