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Whale Talk

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061968536
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Whale Talk written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A truly exceptional book.”—Washington Post There's bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don't have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway. Bestselling author Chris Crutcher’s controversial and acclaimed novel follows a group of outcasts as they take on inequality and injustice in their high school. "Crutcher's superior gifts as a storyteller and his background as a working therapist combine to make magic in Whale Talk. The thread of truth in his fiction reminds us that heroes can come in any shape, color, ability or size, and friendship can bridge nearly any divide.”—Washington Post T.J. Jones hates the blatant preferential treatment jocks receive at his high school, and the reverence paid to the varsity lettermen. When he sees a member of the wrestling team threatening an underclassman, T.J. decides he’s had enough. He recruits some of the biggest misfits at Cutter High to form a swim team. They may not have very much talent, but the All-Night Mermen prove to be way more than T.J. anticipated. As the unlikely athletes move closer to their goal, these new friends might learn that the journey is worth more than the reward. For fans of Andrew Smith and Marieke Nijkamp. "Crutcher offers an unusual yet resonant mixture of black comedy and tragedy that lays bare the superficiality of the high-school scene. The book's shocking climax will force readers to re-examine their own values and may cause them to alter their perception of individuals pegged as 'losers.'"—Publishers Weekly An American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age Features a new afterword by Chris Crutcher

Period 8

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062190245
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Period 8 written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this terrifying and provocative novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Deadline and Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, a teenage boy tries to uncover what happened to a girl who has vanished from his high school. Was she abducted, or did she run for her life? 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 just 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 liar is in their midst. Terrifying, thought-provoking, and original, this novel combines all the qualities of a great psychological thriller with the controversy, ethics, athletics, humor, and raw emotion of a classic Crutcher story.

Athletic Shorts

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006196834X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Athletic Shorts written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These six powerful short stories chronicle bits of the lives of characters, major and minor, who have walked the rugged terrain of Chris Crutcher's earlier works. They also introduce some new and unforgettable personalities who may well be heard from again in future books. As with all Crutcher's work, these are stories about athletes, and yet they are not sport stories. They are tales of love and death, bigotry and heroism, of real people doing their best even when that best isn't very good. Crutcher's straightforward style and total honesty have earned him an admiring audience and made readers of many nonreaders.

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061968501
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called a “masterpiece” in a starred review from School Library Journal, award-winning author Chris Crutcher’s acclaimed Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes is an enduring classic. This bestselling novel is about love, loyalty, and friendship in the face of adversity. “Superb plotting, extraordinary characters, and cracking narrative make this novel unforgettable.”—Publishers Weekly Sarah Byrnes and Eric Calhoune have been friends for years. When they were children, his weight and her scars made them both outcasts. Now Sarah Byrnes—the smartest, toughest person Eric has ever known—sits silent in a hospital. Eric must uncover the terrible secret she’s hiding before its dark current pulls them both under. Will appeal to fans of Marieke Nijkamp, Andrew Smith, and John Corey Whaley. “Once again, Chris Crutcher plunges his readers into life's tough issues within a compelling story filled with human compassion . . . with his characteristic intelligence, humor, and empathy."—ALAN Review An American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults

Losers Bracket

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062220098
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Losers Bracket written by Chris Crutcher and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a family argument turns into an urgent hunt for a missing child, seventeen-year-old Annie Boots must do everything in her power to bring her nephew home safely. Chris Crutcher, the acclaimed and bestselling author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, shares a provocative story about family, loss, and loyalty that is perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Laurie Halse Anderson. The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books called Losers Bracket “Genuine and affecting.” When it comes to family, Annie is in the losers bracket. While her foster parents are great (mostly), her birth family would not have been her first pick. And no matter how many times Annie tries to write them out of her life, she always gets sucked back into their drama. Love is like that. But when a family argument breaks out at Annie’s swim meet and her nephew goes missing, Annie might be the only one who can get him back. With help from her friends, her foster brother, and her social service worker, Annie puts the pieces of the puzzle together, determined to find her nephew and finally get him into a safe home. Award-winning author Chris Crutcher’s books are strikingly authentic and unflinchingly honest. Losers Bracket is by turns gripping, heartbreaking, hopeful, and devastating, and hits the sweet spot for fans of Andrew Smith and Marieke Nijkamp.

Deadline

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061908312
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Deadline written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Wolf has big things planned for his senior year. Had big things planned. Now what he has is some very bad news and only one year left to make his mark on the world. How can a pint-sized, smart-ass seventeen-year-old do anything significant in the nowheresville of Trout, Idaho? First, Ben makes sure that no one else knows what is going on—not his superstar quarterback brother, Cody, not his parents, not his coach, no one. Next, he decides to become the best 127-pound football player Trout High has ever seen; to give his close-minded civics teacher a daily migraine; and to help the local drunk clean up his act. And then there's Dallas Suzuki. Amazingly perfect, fascinating Dallas Suzuki, who may or may not give Ben the time of day. Really, she's first on the list. Living with a secret isn't easy, though, and Ben's resolve begins to crumble . . . especially when he realizes that he isn't the only person in Trout with secrets.

Ironman

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061968420
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Ironman written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Chinese Handcuffs

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062657461
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Handcuffs written by Chris Crutcher and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dillon is living with the painful memory of his brother's suicide -- and the role he played in it. To keep his mind and body occupied, he trains intensely for the Ironman triathlon. But outside of practice, his life seems to be falling apart. Then Dillon finds a confidante in Jennifer, a star high school basketball player who's hiding her own set of destructive secrets. Together, they must find the courage to confront their demons -- before it's too late.

King of the Mild Frontier

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061968447
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book King of the Mild Frontier written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age A riveting, scorching—and hilarious—autobiography by the award-winning author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes and Deadline. From trying to impress a member of the girls’ softball team (with disastrous dental results) to enduring the humiliation of his high school athletic club initiation (olives and oysters play unforgettable roles), Chris Crutcher’s memoir of the tricky road to adulthood is candid, disarming, laugh-out-loud funny, relevant, and never less than riveting. He vividly describes a temper that was always waiting to trip him up even as it sustained him through some of the most memorable mishaps any child has survived. And how did this guy (he lifted his brother’s homework through the entire tenth grade) ever become a writer, not to mention the author of fourteen critically acclaimed books for young people? The frontier may be mild, but the book is not. Fans of Tara Westover’s Educated, Jack Gantos’s Hole in My Life, and Walter Dean Myers’s Bad Boy will laugh, will cry, and will remember. “Funny, bittersweet and brutally honest. Readers will clasp this hard-to-put-down book to their hearts even as they laugh sympathetically.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Stotan!

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006196851X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Stotan! written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stotan: A cross between a Stoic and a Spartin It's the last swimming season for Walker, Nortie, Lion, and Jeff, and their coach is building their self-discipline in a grueling four-hour-a-day test of stamina designed to bring them to the outer edge of their capabilities. As it turns out, Stotan Week is also the week in which secrets are revealed, and the four friends must draw upon their new strengths for an endurance they never knew they'd need.

Running Loose

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061968471
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Running Loose written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louie Banks has it made. He's got a starting spot on the football team, good friends, and a smart, beautiful girlfriend who loves him as much as he loves her. Early in the fall, he sees all his ideas of fair play go up in smoke; by spring, what he cares about most has been destroyed. How can Louie keep going when he's lost everything?

The Crazy Horse Electric Game

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061968374
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Crazy Horse Electric Game written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willie Weaver used to be a hero. Now he's nothing. Willie is a top athlete, the star of the legendary game against Crazy Horse Electric. Then a freak accident robs him of his once-amazing physical talents. Betrayed by his family, his girlfriend, and his own body, Willie's on the run, penniless and terrified on the streets, where he must fight to rebuild both his body and his life.

The Butterfly Girl

Author : Rene Denfeld
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062698184
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book The Butterfly Girl written by Rene Denfeld and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A heartbreaking, finger-gnawing, and yet ultimately hopeful novel by the amazing Rene Denfeld.” —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi—the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children—returns, trading snow-covered woods for dark, gritty streets on the search for her missing sister in a city where young, homeless girls have been going missing and turning up dead. From the highly praised author of The Child Finder and The Enchanted comes The Butterfly Girl, a riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried. A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who has been missing for years. Naomi has no picture, not even a name. All she has is a vague memory of a strawberry field at night, black dirt under her bare feet as she ran for her life. The search takes her to Portland, Oregon, where scores of homeless children wander the streets like ghosts, searching for money, food, and companionship. The sharp-eyed investigator soon discovers that young girls have been going missing for months, many later found in the dirty waters of the river. Though she does not want to get involved, Naomi is unable to resist the pull of children in need—and the fear she sees in the eyes of a twelve-year old girl named Celia. Running from an abusive stepfather and an addict mother, Celia has nothing but hope in the butterflies—her guides and guardians on the dangerous streets. She sees them all around her, tiny iridescent wisps of hope that soften the edges of this hard world and illuminate a cherished memory from her childhood—the Butterfly Museum, a place where everything is safe and nothing can hurt her. As danger creeps closer, Naomi and Celia find echoes of themselves in one another, forcing them each to consider the question: Can you still be lost even when you’ve been found? But will they find the answer too late?

Chris Crutcher

Author : Bryan Gillis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 081088562X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Chris Crutcher written by Bryan Gillis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching the Selected Works of Chris Crutcher (Boynton/Cook, 2008)104 pages, paperback, $21.25Pub Alley: 51 ($889); BookScan: 71; WorldCat: Chris Crutcher by Michael A. Sommers (Rosen Pub Group, 2005), 112 pages, $33.25. 9781404203259.Pub Alley: 166 ($4,522.65); BookScan: 8; WorldCat: 107Presenting Chris Crutcher [Twayne's United States Authors Series] (Twayne, 1997), 144 pages, hardcover, $29Pub Alley: 180 ($5,040); BookScan: 18; WorldCat: 451

The Deep End

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 9780821744253
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book The Deep End written by Chris Crutcher and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workaholic family therapist Wilson Corder becomes caught in the middle of a chilling kidnapping and child abuse case when Sabrina Parker, the daughter of one of his patients, is abducted and later found dead.

Leapholes

Author : James Grippando
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781590316665
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Leapholes written by James Grippando and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle school student Ryan Coolidge finds himself in trouble with the law and turns to a mysterious and magical old lawyer named Hezekiah, who uses leapholes to travel through time and law history in search of an answer to Ryan's legal troubles.

Trafficked

Author : Kim Purcell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101566922
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Trafficked written by Kim Purcell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah has struggled ever since her parents were killed and her beloved uncle vanished. So when she's offered the chance to leave Moldova and become a nanny for a family in Los Angeles, it seems like a dream come true-and at first it is. But after weeks of working sixteen-hour days and not being able to leave the house, she still hasn't been paid. As things go from bad to worse, Hannah realizes that things are not at all what they seem and she finds herself doing things she never imagined herself capable of. But as she begins uncovering the family's crooked history, she may be exposing more than she bargained on-and putting her life in danger.