WELCOME...
...to best selling author Chris Crutcher's website. For the past 30 years, Crutcher has written cutting edge, realistic fiction for readers who have experienced the angst and formative challenge of being a young adult. Known for a powerful mix of humor and tragedy, Crutcher's books explore coming of age, through stories and language authentic to that experience.
You'll find all the latest news about CC and his work here.
If you'd like to write to CC directly, he prefers email and will respond if you contact him at Stotan717@gmail.com.
If you'd like to book CC as a speaker, contact him directly, but be sure to copy his assistant, Kelly at KellyMilnerH@aol.com. Kelly coordinates his calendar and all of his bookings.
Have a picture of Chris you'd like to see on his website? Suggestions or complaints? Send those to Kelly, too and she'll do her best to help.
You'll find all the latest news about CC and his work here.
If you'd like to write to CC directly, he prefers email and will respond if you contact him at Stotan717@gmail.com.
If you'd like to book CC as a speaker, contact him directly, but be sure to copy his assistant, Kelly at KellyMilnerH@aol.com. Kelly coordinates his calendar and all of his bookings.
Have a picture of Chris you'd like to see on his website? Suggestions or complaints? Send those to Kelly, too and she'll do her best to help.
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Now Available from HarperCollings/Greenwillow Also Available PERIOD 8 bookmark/discussion guides. Want some? Email CC's assistant at kellymilnerh@aol.com. |
Video courtesy of Epic Reads!
NEWS BRIEFS
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THANKS, YA BIBLIOPHILE
...for featuring Chris Crutcher on your blog! EPIC READS CC answers questions via video HERE on Epic Reads. Check it out! KENNESAW REVISTED CC had to miss the Kennesaw University's 12th Annual Conference on Literature due to a personal emergency, and novelist Marc Nobleman stepped up to cover his keynote. Thanks, Marc! Read about it HERE. Determined to make good on his promise, CC stopped by K.U. on May 8 (and Cherokee High School May 9), 2013 for a proper "do-over." HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOISE! Though he was raised a few miles north in Cascade, CC joined in nearby Boise, Idaho's Sesquicentennial celebration, speaking at area high schools, libraries and Boise's Egyptian Theater. Who says you can't go home again? PERIOD 8 -- BLOG REVIEWS Books with Bite -- HERE Helen's Book Blog -- HERE. Book Peep Wonders -- HERE Snuggly Oranges -- HERE Two Heads Together -- HERE Reinventing the Librarian -- HERE As the Crow Flies (and Reads) -- HERE Jent's Reads -- HERE Forever Young Adult -- HERE Tulsa Book Review/Rosi Hollinbeck -- HERE |
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More PERIOD 8 early buzz from two experts!
I'm still pinching myself unable to believe I scored an ARC of PERIOD 8 by Chris Crutcher. Scheduled for release in April of 2013, PERIOD 8 is an example of vintage Crutcher combined with a dash of mystery. I was almost breathless in the final 30-40 pages as the action rushed to a riveting conclusion.
Sally Kruger, ReadingJunky
To read more, CLICK HERE.
Chris Crutcher has done it again. With his latest novel, Period.8, the “King of the Boy Books” (a title not meant to gender his work but to represent his mass appeal to the male young adult audience) has “turned it up a notch,” going well beyond the type of Crutcher story that we have come to expect and love. As a reading specialist and English teacher for 17 years (working mostly with struggling secondary readers), I use Chris Crutcher as my “go to” author when I am trying to find a book that will “hook” a reluctant reader. Crutcher’s work has it all: believable characters we love, a storyline that keeps us enthralled, and a message that resounds loudly with important life lessons. Period.8 offers all of these elements and more, entrenching readers in a mystery that takes reading the entire book to solve.
Dr. Susan James, The Book Dealer
To read more, CLICK HERE.
In this full-length novel from Chris Crutcher, his first since the best-selling Deadline, the ultimate bully and the ultimate good guy tangle during Period 8.
Paul "the Bomb" Baum tells the truth. No matter what. It was something he learned at Sunday School. But telling the truth can cause problems, and not minor ones. And as Paulie discovers, finding the truth can be even more problematic. Period 8 is supposed to be that one period in high school where the truth can shine, a safe haven. Only what Paulie and Hannah (his ex-girlfriend, unfortunately) and his other classmates don't know is that the ultimate bully, the ultimate liar, is in their midst.
Terrifying, thought-provoking, and original, this novel combines all the qualities of a great thriller with the controversy, ethics, and raw emotion of a classic Crutcher story.
Literary Exploration blog
Sally Kruger, ReadingJunky
To read more, CLICK HERE.
Chris Crutcher has done it again. With his latest novel, Period.8, the “King of the Boy Books” (a title not meant to gender his work but to represent his mass appeal to the male young adult audience) has “turned it up a notch,” going well beyond the type of Crutcher story that we have come to expect and love. As a reading specialist and English teacher for 17 years (working mostly with struggling secondary readers), I use Chris Crutcher as my “go to” author when I am trying to find a book that will “hook” a reluctant reader. Crutcher’s work has it all: believable characters we love, a storyline that keeps us enthralled, and a message that resounds loudly with important life lessons. Period.8 offers all of these elements and more, entrenching readers in a mystery that takes reading the entire book to solve.
Dr. Susan James, The Book Dealer
To read more, CLICK HERE.
In this full-length novel from Chris Crutcher, his first since the best-selling Deadline, the ultimate bully and the ultimate good guy tangle during Period 8.
Paul "the Bomb" Baum tells the truth. No matter what. It was something he learned at Sunday School. But telling the truth can cause problems, and not minor ones. And as Paulie discovers, finding the truth can be even more problematic. Period 8 is supposed to be that one period in high school where the truth can shine, a safe haven. Only what Paulie and Hannah (his ex-girlfriend, unfortunately) and his other classmates don't know is that the ultimate bully, the ultimate liar, is in their midst.
Terrifying, thought-provoking, and original, this novel combines all the qualities of a great thriller with the controversy, ethics, and raw emotion of a classic Crutcher story.
Literary Exploration blog
