Are you ready for some football?!?! This fall and winter you can sate your appetite for football stories with the Loft’s hefty collection of fiction and non-fiction books about the power of the pigskin. Payback Time, Knights of the Hill Country, Million-Dollar Throw, Crackback, and Pop!, and , as well as [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Chris Crutcher’
Football Stories in the Loft
Posted: October 21, 2010 by jdapier in Loft Book Reviews, Young Adult BooksTags: brain injuries, Carl Deuker, Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Chicago Bears, Chris Crutcher, Chris Lynch, Green Bay Packers, Jay Cutler, John Feinstein, Michael Lewis, National Football League, NFL, The Blind Side, Walter Payton
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Banned Books Week: Celebrate the Power of the Written Word
Posted: September 30, 2009 by jdapier in Links, Loft Book Reviews, Young Adult BooksTags: Banned Books Week, Chris Crutcher, Fahrenheit 451, Libyrinth, markus zusak, Ray Bradbury, The Book Thief
One way you can celebrate Banned Books Week is by reading one of the many books that were challenged in various parts of the country in 2008-2009. But, then I got to thinking, another way you can ring in this event would be to pick up one of the many top-notch books out there that [...]
(Don’t) Watch Your Tongue: It’s BANNED BOOKS WEEK 2009
Posted: September 28, 2009 by jdapier in Links, The Loft, Young Adult BooksTags: Banned Books Week, Censorship, Chris Crutcher, Ellen Hopkins, Laurie Halse Anderson
September 26th – October 3rd, 2009 is Banned Books Week. This annual event was founded to celebrate the freedom to read and to raise awareness about the book challenges and bans that threaten that freedom. Banned Books Week serves as a reminder that we must protect the availability of unpopular, even radical, viewpoints to all [...]
Whatever You Do, Don’t Read These Books
Posted: June 22, 2009 by jdapier in The Loft, Young Adult BooksTags: Baby Be-Bop, banned books, Cecily von Ziegesar, Chinese Handcuffs, Chris Crutcher, Francesca Lia Block, Gossip Girl, sherman alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Weetzie Bat, Whale Talk
WARNING: ACCORDING TO SOME PARENTS IN TOWNS ACROSS AMERICA THESE BOOKS ARE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR YOU “Vulgar…” “Inappropriate…” “Damaging…” Summer: for some it means a time to work, for others a time to play, and for many it’s a time, after 9 months of assigned school reading, to choose your own books, to decide [...]
Deadline by Chris Crutcher
Posted: May 20, 2009 by jdapier in Loft Book Reviews, The Loft, Young Adult BooksTags: Chris Crutcher, Deadline, Young Adult Books
What would you do with your life if you knew you only had a year to live? That’s the question Ben Wolf, the hero of Chris Crutcher’s excellent novel, Deadline, must ask himself when, during a routine physical before the start of senior year, he is diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. His answer? [...]
