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Running Loose

2003Chris Crutcher

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[Note: Spoilers ahead.]Louie Banks's senior year of high school looks like it's going to be amazing. His love life hasn't been so stellar in the past, but now he has an amazing girlfriend, Becky, who loves him for who he is--much to his amazement. He's spent the past summer working out and is now starting on his high school football team, prepped to help lead them to another state championship. It seems like nothing could go wrong--and so, of course, almost everything does. When Louie protests against his coach teaching the team to play "dirty football," he is kicked off the team. Things go from bad to worse when (view spoiler)[Becky is killed in a freak accident. (hide spoiler)]

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