In high school in the remote logging town of Cascade, Idaho, Crutcher says that he charmed his way out of trouble.  “I was rebellious, really, and I didn’t want to do anything anybody told me to do.”

Crutcher lives in the Northwest and is a therapist who works with teens.  “Kids expect life to be fair because they’ve been taught that it should be—and when it isn’t, the shock is tremendously painful.”   When you read a Crutcher book, you know that you've found a friend.