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As featured in Radical Reads: 101 YA Novels on the Edge (Scarecrow, 2002). For the full text, click on "Excerpt." |
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As featured in Radical Reads: 101 YA Novels on the Edge (Scarecrow, 2002). For the full text, click on "Excerpt." |
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A great booktalk, including character profiles, themes, and much more from the author of RADICAL READS. |
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Dr. Barron's UNCG LIS chat transcript with Chris Crutcher. |
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 Watching his brother Preston put a gun to his head and pull the trigger knocked 18-year-old Dillon Hemmingway to the ground. Helping his brother's grieving girlfriend Stacy, and falling for the mysterious and troubled basketball star, Jennifer Lawless helps bring him back to his feet.
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Using CHINESE HANDCUFFS and YOU REMIND ME OF YOU as an anti-suicide curriculum. |
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Trackstar's excellent shared teaching plans are worth exploring. This one by Mindy Young is about Crutcher himself. |
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 FOWLERVILLE — Chris Crutcher spent a day talking to students at Fowlerville High School where his book, “Whale Talk,” was briefly banned last fall.
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This track is to be used in conjunction with the study of Chris Crutcher's book, The Crazy Horse Electric Game. |
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WHALE TALK surfaced in bookstores on April 10, 2001. Hoopfest surfaced in WHALE TALK at the book's riveting conclusion. But what IS Hoopfest? And why did Crutcher mention it? |
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Ruth Cox hosted a chat with Chris Crutcher for her Univeristy of Houston-Clear Lake School Library and Information Science Program students. |
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Columnist Matt James advances Chris Crutcher's lecture at Viterbo University, April 25, 2003 -- a week early on April 18th. But it's a thoughtful essay, so check it out. |
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An insightful question and answer interview with Chris Crutcher from the School Library Journal and respected literature professor Betty Carter. |
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 A collection of short essays on how early failure impacted eventual success, including a chapter by Chris Crutcher. |
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 Bo Brewster has been at war with his father for as long as he can remember. Following angry outbursts at school that cost Bo his spot on the football team, he lands in Mr. Nak's anger management group. He finds unconditional acceptance with this hard-boiled pack of survivors, love with Shelly, a future American Gladiator, and a the quiet strength to be who he was meant to be, even without his father's approval.
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Formerly posted on the Random House website, rescued and posted here, hopefully without objections. |
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A great study guide in the form of an Internet treasure hunt by Mary Mahoney. |
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IRA interview with CC to celebrate KING OF THE MILD FRONTIER. |
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 Crutcher offers dozens of hillarious, insightful, tender, heartwrenching glimpses into his boyhood in Cascade, Idaho in a memoir that has New York buzz calling him the new Jean Shepherd. Outstanding read by a gifted storyteller. |
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Crutcher was the special guest on LaCrosse Talk, a radio program in LaCrosse Wisconsin with Mike Hayes. |
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 Idaho senior Louie Banks has a lot going for him -- good friends, a starting spot on the football team, and a terrific girlfriend, Becky -- until his world shatters. What happens when everything you thought was true stops making sense? Crutcher skillfully examines that question in a book the School Library Journal says, "raises important issues for adolescents to consider."
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 Moby and Sarah have been friends since their "uglies" -- his fat and her facial burns -- forever bound them in elementary school. But as swimming melts away Moby's disability, he struggles to help Sarah believe in his friendship and find her own lasting peace. A truly outstanding look at friendship, survival and hope. Soon to be a major motion picture. |
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Summary, booktalk and discussion questions for STAYING FAT FOR SARAH BYRNES. |
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Bare bones frame of Rob O'Brien's original teaching rubric for using ATHLETIC SHORTS to explore existentialism. |
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 Walker, Nortie, Lion, and Jeff are the best of friends and members of their high school swim team. Together they pledge to accept the challenge of Stotan Week -- seven days that test their physical abilities and the strength of friendship itself.
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