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Willie is a top athlete, the star of the legendary game against Crazy Horse Electric. Then a freak accident robs him of his once-amazing physical talents.

Betrayed by his family, his girlfriend, and his own body, Willie's on the run, penniless and terrified on the streets, where he must fight to rebuild both his body and his life.

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Realistic and gripping...

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One of the best books I've ever read. Crutcher expands on "real-life" issues, emotions, and situations that young adults experience. The reader is provided with the viewpoints of a wide variety of characters- teenager, mother, father, friend, girlfriend, counselor, small-town living, inner-city life... as well as the pressure and stress that each individual has to cope with in order to continue living. Excellent, excellent book!

Redefining Self

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Willie is a high school kid, the star of his baseball team and a town hero. His life is great and everyone is proud of him and his athletic abilities. Then he is in a water-skiing accident, an accident that leaves him partially paralyzed. He walks with a limp and can't play sports anymore. His parents are fighting and their marriage is falling apart because Willie's dad can't deal with his son's new disability. So Willie runs away. After some bad times and a few dangerous situations, Willie ends up at a California high school full of kids who dropped out or were thrown out of regular high schools. The people at the school are kind to Willie and they help him get himself back together again. This story is about him coming to terms with his new identity and figuring out that his life will not always be perfect. I liked the secondary characters, and I liked the way Chris Crutcher showed Willie's progress both pysically and mentally. I thought it was pretty weak that Willie would run away from his parents like he did, but without that part of the plot he would not have been able to go on this journey of self-discovery.

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this book is really interesting and gets you hooked as early as the first page and doesnt let you go till the very end. i love baseball and this book has a lot of baseball content and action scenes. i hard about this book from my friend and he told me that it was just ok, but i think that its great, anybook with baseball and gangsters is good for me. i would recomend this book to anyone who likes an action based fast moving book with some baseball scenes.

Crazy Horse Electric Game

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Page turning! The Crazy Horse Electric Game, by Chris Crutcher is a great book that teaches the reader a life long lesson: you may only get one chance to do something and if you fail to fulfill that opportunity, it may be gone forever. If you let that chance pass by you may regret it because you could have let something keep you from going through with it. When seventeen year old Willie Weaver, gets injured in a water skiing accident, he begins to have problems physically, with his friends, family, and also with his emotions. Willie's was an average boy, who was also the all-star baseball champion back at his hometown in Coho. Willie thinks that all of his problems would become non- existent if he runs away, so decides to do just that, but when he returns his problems are still there but in a different twist. Chris Crutcher writes The Crazy Horse Electric Game so that the reader can easily understand the whole morale of the story, and it is attention drawing and is able to keep you interested from beginning to end. The language and book itself, is more for seventh to tenth grade students, because of the character, language and it's also something they can easily relate to. I think that this book will attract this age group to stay intoned with The Crazy Horse Electric Game, easily understand the morale, and will keep reading until the book is finished because they will want to know everything that happens from beginning to end.

The Crazy Horse Electric Game

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Willie Weaver was an all star athlete before he was in a terrible boating accident. After the accident everything seemed to go bad for Willie, he lost his girlfriend, his parents started fighting, and he cant play sports. Willie tries to get help from counclers and theripests, but he keeps on getting worse. Willie runs away to California, where he is taught many valuable lessons. Willie strugles, but with help Willie tries to get over his accident.