Chris Crutcher

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1983
  • Latest Book:
    April 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Stotan!

1 - Stotan! (Apr-2003)
2 - Ironman (Oct-2004)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • Running Loose

    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 care...

  • The Crazy Horse Electric Game

    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 hi...

  • The Deep End

    A therapist treating abused children and families in crisis, Wilson Corder faces his most horrifying experience yet when seven-year-old Sabrina Parker is kidnapped and his own children's lives are threatened. Reprint....

  • Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

    What do you get when you throw together one of the ugliest human beings outside a circus and the fattest boy in high school? Two kids with the "terminal uglies" who are inseparable best friends. When smart, sarcastic Sarah Byrnes was three years o...

  • On the Fringe

    From a star football player standing up for a tormented student to a ruthless bully who tests the faith of a religious girl, a compelling and dramatic collection of stories embodies the teen "outsider" experience and features contributions from such ...

  • Stotan!

    Stotan! - 1

    Stotan: A cross between a Stoic and a SpartinIt'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...

  • Chinese Handcuffs

    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 Dil...

  • Ironman

    Stotan! - 2

    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,...

  • Sledding Hill

    Billy Bartholomew has an audacious soul, and he knows it. Why? Because it's all he has left. He's dead.Eddie Proffit has an equally audacious soul, but he doesn't know it. He's still alive.These days, Billy and Eddie meet on the sledding hill, where ...



  • Deadline

    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...

  • Angry Management

    Every kid in this group wants to fly. Every kid in this group has too much ballast. Mr. Nak's Angry Management group is a place for misfits. A place for stories. And, man, does this crew have stories. There's Angus Bethune and Sarah Byrnes, who...

  • Whale Talk

    A varsity letter jacket: it's exclusive. nearly unattainable, revered ... and everything that's screwed up about Cutter High, as far as T. J. Jones is concerned. That's why T. J. is determined to have the Cutter All Night Mermen -- the unlikeliest sw...

  • King of the Mild Frontier

    ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * New York Public Library Books for the Teen AgeA 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...

  • Guys Read: The Meat Grinder

    If Devin Mack can't actually fight his father, he's going to fight everyone he can find on the football field....

  • Period 8

    Period 8. An hour a day. You can hang out. You can eat your lunch. You can talk. Or listen. Or neither. Or both. Nothing is off-limits. The only rule is that you keep it real; that you tell the truth. Heller High senior Paul Baum -- aka Paulie Bom...

  • Losers Bracket

    A provocative and heart-wrenching novel about family, loss, and loyalty from acclaimed and bestselling author Chris Crutcher. When it comes to family, Annie is in the losers bracket. While her foster parents are great (mostly), her birth family w...

  • Athletic Shorts

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    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...

Award-Winning Books by Chris Crutcher

Whale Talk
2002 Bookseller's Choice -- Young Adult
2002 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award -- Regional Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Chris Crutcher has published 17 books.

Chris Crutcher does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Losers Bracket, was published in April 2018.

The first book by Chris Crutcher, Running Loose, was published in April 1983.

Yes. Chris Crutcher has 1 series.
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