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Authors: Chris Crutcher
I'd be a better cowboy if they let me get rid of the bib overalls
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Alone with
“The Lone Ranger”
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Getting ready to “do something neat”
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Future triathlete on his balloon-tired Schwinn one-speed
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123-pound offensive guard, striking fear into all who would oppose me
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Senior players on the 1963â64 Cascade Ramblers eight-man high school football team
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So the football thing didn't work outâhow about swimming?
1966â67 Eastern Washington State College savage swim team
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Headed for the 1960 National Boy Scout jamboree, posing as a
real
Boy Scout
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1964 high school graduate and future business tycoonâit didn't quite work out
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King of the Mild Frontier
CHRIS CRUTCHER
is the critically acclaimed author of seven young adult novels and a collection of short stories, all of which were selected as ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Drawing on his experience as a family therapist and child protection specialist, Crutcher writes honestly about real issues facing teenagers today: making it through school, competing in sports, handling rejection and failure, and dealing with parents.
The Horn Book
said of his novels, “Writing with vitality and authority that stems from personal experienceâ¦Chris Crutcher gives readers the inside story on young men, sports, and growing up.”
Chris Crutcher has won two lifetime achievement awards for his work: the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature for Young Adults and the ALAN Award for a Significant Contribution to Adolescent Literature. He lives in Spokane, Washington.
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Memory is selective and by nature faulty. That statement is probably doubly true for my memory. Add to that my penchant for exaggeration and the fact that I have changed some of the names for obvious reasons, and you have a memoir that may not stand up to close historical scrutiny. So be it.
âC.C.
KING OF THE MILD FRONTIER
: An Ill-Advised Autobiography. Copyright © 2003 by Chris Crutcher. All photographs courtesy of the author. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Adobe Digital Edition July 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-196844-0
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