The Light of Rigel by Marya Brunson

Eleven year old Jamie's greatest passions are science fiction, outer-space and baseball. He lives a normal life in an average American town until a mysterious peace giving Light streams through his bedroom window. Share Jamie's excitement as the Light transports him and his friends to a distant planet orbiting the star of Rigel, setting them on a quest to restore daylight to a land cursed to live without it for more than a thousand years.