Chris Crutcher
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"Chris Crutcher" is an American people/American novelist and a family therapist. He received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2000 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.

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It's the scene in the book that probably gets the most attention, ... The biggest problem is that she is yelling, and in the book it's in big font. This is what happens all the time: They read the language and don't read the context. It's meant to let you know how awful her life is.

What happens is everybody thinks the danger is you're going to read this stuff and all of a sudden you'll start acting that way.

I heard the voice of God saying, 'You have read your last book,'.

The truth that comes out from those people's lives is skimmed off and thrown into my characters' lives.

Since I didn't read a lot, it left me without rules when I was writing.

I get used to it, ... One of the things I find is that schools and school boards get antsy about whether to have me there.

I realized that I wanted to be a writer and I had characters and topics all around me to write about.

With all the kids that I have worked with throughout the years, I couldn't find one that wasn't like me in a way.

(The Michigan district) used it as an all-school reader, ... Sophomores, juniors and seniors were reading it and discussing it and discussing it in different disciplines, and I was getting some amazing e-mails back from kids and teachers.