All week long, I'll be reading banned books and blogging about 'em. Here's the first one I read - finished last night, watching the Rockies-Padres game.
Chris Crutcher's book Athletic Shorts is one of his many books that have been challenged or banned in this country. It's a book of six short stories, most of them about athletes. There's "A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune," which is about a fat kid who happens to be great at football and whose parents are both gay. Angus is the target of many high school pranks, and as part of the latest one, he's been elected Senior Winter Ball King, and set up to dance with high school beauty Melissa Lefevre. There's "The Pin" and "The Other Pin," two stories about wrestling. Then there's "Going Fishing," the story of a high school swimmer whose entire family was killed in a boating accident by his childhood friend. Crutcher attacks big issues head on: racism, in "The Telephone Man" and stereotyping, in "In The Time I Get." Even though his stories tackle serious matters, they're also funny and real. Crutcher's been writing for teens since the 1980s, and he's still at it, so he must be pretty good at it, right? Oh yeah.
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