Athletic Shorts: What is the Big Deal?

Chris Crutcher’s book, Athletic Shorts, is one of the many books that appears on the list of banned or challenged books submitted to library’s across the nation for the American Library Association’s, National Banned Books Week. The books on this list are deemed as offensive in some way that young adolescents should not be allowed to read them. Crutcher’s book contains some words and topics that people believe young adolescents should …

…youth today not just for a critical look at the words on the page. If the strong language and situations were removed from Crutcher’s book then what would be the reason to read it, just for amusement or entertainment. Books are sometimes written to provide strength to those who read it, also to give examples of how to react in situations that you may face in your life although not on an everyday basis.