Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The Crazy Horse Electric Game / Chris Crutcher / 215 pages

The Crazy Horse Electric Game is realistic fiction at its best.  Although the reader anticipates "happily ever after" as Willie comes to terms with, and rises above, his sports-related handicap, this would have been too easy and somewhat disappointing.  Instead, the reader realizes that bad things happen to good people; that expectations are, as often as no,t left unfulfilled; and that regardless of what happens we must deal with it.
This books deals with many difficult topics:  Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; abuse; gangs;  runaways; teenage prostitution, etc...

ALA Best Book for Young Adults

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