Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe

Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe

It's 1968, and war is not foreign to seventeen-year-old Ashe. His dogmatic, racist father married his passionate peace-activist mother when she became pregnant with him, and ever since, the couple, like the situation in Vietnam, has been engaged in a "senseless war that could have been prevented."
     When his high school history teacher dares to teach the political realities of the war, Ashe grows to better understand the situation in Vietnam, his family, and the wider world around him. But when a new crisis hits his parents' marriage, Ashe finds himself trapped, with no options before him but to enter the fray.

Chris Crowe was born in Danville, Illinois, and attended schools in Illinois, New Mexico, and California before settling in Tempe, Arizona, with his parents, where he graduated from McKemy Junior High and McClintock High School. He received a football scholarship at Brigham Young University, where he played in the 1974 Fiesta Bowl and got a degree in English. He taught English at McClintock High School for ten years while also pursuing his master's and doctorate degrees at Arizona State University on a part-time basis. He is the author of various works, the most well-known of which is MISSISSIPPI TRIAL, published in 1955 and winner of numerous accolades, including the 2003 International Reading Association's Young Adult Novel Award. GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER: THE TRUE STORY OF THE EMMETT TILL CASE, his nonfiction work, was a Jane Addams Honor book.

JUST AS GOOD: HOW LARRY DOBY CHANGED AMERICA'S GAME, his first children's book, was published in 2012. His most recent book is DEATH COMING UP THE HILL, a historical thriller set to be released in October 2014. Chris married his high school love, and the two now reside in Provo, Utah, where Chris works in the BYU English department. They have four children and are grandparents to two beautiful girls and three wonderful sons.

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ISBN 13	9780544302150
ISBN 10	054430215X
Title	Death Coming Up the Hill
Author	Chris Crowe
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	2014-10-07
Number of pages	208
Prizes	Commended for Tayshas Reading 2016
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.