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Happy Thursday! #tbt features an autobiography written by one of my favorite YA authors, Chris Crutcher. He grew up in a small, rural community called Cascade in Idaho. He had an older brother who was a great student, but young Chris was not. He didn't even like to read, so he stole his brother's book reports and turned them in as his own. He got away with this until a book his brother hadn't been assigned was the class read. This book, To Kill a Mockingbird, turned him into a reader. His high school was so small that nearly every boy was recruited for the football team, whether or not they could or wanted to play.
The essays are often laugh-out-loud funny and fans of the author's books might recognize seeds of some of his characters.
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