Crutcher, Chris

Wilson Corder, a family therapist, investigates the disappearence of one of his clients and has to defend his own family as he tries to capture the killer.

A high school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after an accident, runs away from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by an African-American benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.

Period 8 has always been a safe haven and high school senior Paulie "The Bomb" Baum a constant attendee. But as Paulie, Hannah, their friends, and a sympathetic teacher try to unravel the mystery of a missing classmate, the ultimate bully takes aim at the school.

Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.

A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier books by Chris Crutcher.

Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.

Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her stepfather is doing to her.

Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos.".

Billy, recently deceased, keeps an eye on his best friend, fourteen-year-old Eddie, and helps him stand up to a conservative minister and English teacher who is orchestrating a censorship challenge.

Louie, a high school senior in a small Idaho town, learns about sportsmanship, love, and death as he matures.