Considered among the most respected American authors of young adult literature, Chris Crutcher is regarded as a dynamic and insightful writer whose works are both exciting sports stories and authentic reflections of the inner lives of his protagonists. P...
Whale Talk is a novel by young adult writer Chris Crutcher. It is narrated by The Tao "T.J." Jones, an adopted Asian-American teenager living in Cutter, Washington, a fictional location described in the novel as being within the Pacific Northwest's...
TIME was running out for the mother whale and her calf as they lay beached on a sandbank. Wildlife volunteers had tried four times to drag them into deeper water but four times they came back. In such circumstances stricken whales are...
Chris Crutcher Whale Talk 219 pp. Greenwillow 4/01 ISBN 0-688-18019-1 15.95 Library edition ISBN 0-06-029369-1 15.89 (High School) Once again, Crutcher has his characters doing what they do best: exercising their bodies in order to exorcise their emotional and spiritual demons. A new...
Beneath the ocean, microphones listen around the clock for the mooing calls of endangered North Atlantic right whales in an eavesdropping experiment that could help save them from extinction.For 20 years, researchers have relied on airplanes and their own eyes to keep tabs on right...
