Guest Speaker, Chris Crutcher, Author and Family Therapist

He will focus on what he has learned working with and writing about kids and families for forty-five years… and a little about being one. *The American Library Association has named eight of Chris’s young adult books, to date, “Best Books for Young Adults,” and four of his books appeared on Booklist’s Best 100 Books of the 20th Century, compiled in 2000 – more than any other single author on the list. Crutcher received the ALAN Award in 1993, the NCTE SLATE Intellectual Freedom Award in 1998, the Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and Writer Magazine’s Writers Who Make a Difference Award in 2004.