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IRONMAN
In print since 1995
Synopsis
Bo Brewster has been at war with his father for as long as he can remember. Following angry outbursts at his football coach and English teacher that have cost him his spot on the football team and moved him dangerously close to expulsion from school, he turns to the only adult he believes will listen: Larry King.
In his letters to Larry, Bo describes his quest for excellence on his own terms. No more coaches for me, he tells the talk show icon, no more dads. I'm going to be a triathlete, an Ironman.
Relegated to Mr. Nak's before-school Anger Management group (which he initially believes to be populated with future serial killers and freeway snipers), Bo meets a hard-edged, down-on-their-luck pack of survivors with stainless steel shields against the world that Bo comes to see are not so different from his own. It is here he meets and falls in love with Shelly, a future American Gladiator, whose passion for physical challenge more than matches his.
Ironman is a funny, sometimes heartbreaking story about growing up in the heart of struggle. It is about standing up, getting knocked down, and standing up again. It is about being heard--and learning to listen.
Review Excerpts
"[Crutcher is] a terrific storyteller with a wonderful handle on what it's like to be an adolescent."
~New York Times Book Review
"With its highly charged intensity channeled into riveting prose, an array of eccentric and strong characterizations, and dramatic plot climax...Ironman is a combination of the psychological and the sports novel at their best."
~Booklist
"Powerful, perceptive, and wickedly funny."
~School Library Journal
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"Crutcher achieves many memorable moments-exchanges between the students in the anger-management class, for example, are idealized but often deeply moving."
~Publisher's Weekly
Awards & Honors
ALA Best Book for YA
New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
SLJ Best Book
American Bookseller Pick of the List
ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers
California Young Reader Medalist
ALA Best of the Best Books for YA
Horn Book Fanfare
Parent's Choice Silver Honor
1996 South Dakota YARP Best Books
2003 Mock Printz Survey for 1996
Nominee 1998 Garden State Teen Book Award
Nominee 1997-1998 SC YA Book Award
Nominee 1997 Nevada Young Reader Award |
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Spanish Language Version
IRONMAN EL TRIATLETA ALF
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FRENCH DESCRIPTIONS:
Qui n'a pas vécu ça: le père qui a toujours raison, l'humiliation publique, à l'école ou ailleurs? Et la colère qui monte, qui monte et provoque l'irréparable. A travers la vie de Bo, garçon tout en os et en muscles qui s'entraîne pour le triathlon, l'auteur, psychologue spécialisé dans la protection de l'enfance, dissèque l'enchaînement de la violence et tente de nous le faire comprendre. Le narrateur, c'est parfois l'adolescent lui-même, parfois l'auteur. Ce qui permet des différences de rythme, de ton et de point de vue. D'où une lecture passionnante, pleine de suspense et d'enseignement. Un uppercut salutaire et un livre exceptionnel.
TRANSLATION (Courtesy of Google)
Who did not live that: the father who is right always, public humiliation, at the school or elsewhere? And the anger which goes up, which assembles and causes the irrevocable one. With through the life of Bo, boy all in bone and muscles who involves himself for the triathlon, the author, psychologist specialized in the child welfare, dissects the sequence of violence and tries to render comprehensible it to us. The narrator, it is sometimes the teenager himself, sometimes the author. What allows differences of rate/rhythm, tone and point of view. From where an enthralling reading, full with suspense and teaching. A salutary uppercut and an exceptional book.
FRENCH DESCRIPTION:
Personne ne comprend Bo Brewster, ni son père, ni ses professeurs. Et ça le met dans une rage... Au point de traiter son prof d'anglais de tous les noms. Erreur fatale qui lui vaudra d'être menacé de renvoi du lycée, à moins qu'il n'accepte de participer au "groupe de la colère". Bo hésite. Il n'y a là que des paumés, des fous, des irrécupérables... Lui se sent tout à fait normal. Que faire ?. Bo se retourne alors vers Larry King, le célèbre journaliste de CNN. Il lui dit sa colère devant l'incompréhension des adultes. Il lui raconte sa rage de gagner un triathlon infernal organisé dans la région.
TRANSLATION (Courtesy of Google)
Nobody includes/understands Bo Brewster, neither his father, nor his professors. And that the met in a rage... At the point to treat its English teacher of all the names. Fatal error which will be worth to him to be threatened of reference of the college, unless it does not agree to take part in the "group of anger". Bo hesitates. There are only the lost ones, the insane ones, the irremediable ones... He feels completely normal. That to make?. Bo is turned over then towards Larry King, celebrates it journalist of CNN. It tells him its anger in front of the incomprehension of the adults. It tells him its rage to gain an infernal triathlon organized in the area. |
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