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A review by jenlikesbigbooks_
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
2.0
REQUIRED READING
Running Loose follows a teenage boy who is on the football team and seems to have everything. He meets a perfect girlfriend. His football coach tells the team that they are playing a game against a team with a black kid. The coach deliberately tells his team to play dirty and hurt the boy so he can't play. In the mean time, Louie and his girlfriend Becky have a weekend alone together and have to deal with whether they were ready to have sex or not. With a turn of events, Becky gets in a car accident and Louie does something to get him kicked off the team. He struggles with reality and accepting that his perfect girlfriend is gone and he doesn't have football anymore.
I feel that this is a great book for teens because it really addresses many issues such as sex, death, cheating, and right and wrong. It has good moral values and ends with Louie learning and growing as a person. It keeps you hooked until that last page and could appeal to any audience despite the seeming football/sports genre. But, I did not specifically enjoy it. I felt like the writing was not very deep. It talked about deep subjects, but the writing felt like it skimmed the surface of the severity.
Running Loose follows a teenage boy who is on the football team and seems to have everything. He meets a perfect girlfriend. His football coach tells the team that they are playing a game against a team with a black kid. The coach deliberately tells his team to play dirty and hurt the boy so he can't play. In the mean time, Louie and his girlfriend Becky have a weekend alone together and have to deal with whether they were ready to have sex or not. With a turn of events, Becky gets in a car accident and Louie does something to get him kicked off the team. He struggles with reality and accepting that his perfect girlfriend is gone and he doesn't have football anymore.
I feel that this is a great book for teens because it really addresses many issues such as sex, death, cheating, and right and wrong. It has good moral values and ends with Louie learning and growing as a person. It keeps you hooked until that last page and could appeal to any audience despite the seeming football/sports genre. But, I did not specifically enjoy it. I felt like the writing was not very deep. It talked about deep subjects, but the writing felt like it skimmed the surface of the severity.