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One of the most prevalent pressures that Lynch's protagonists face is the destructive social tendency to categorize everyone. 'In much of my work,' he says, 'I describe people who are struggling with who they are, with people's perceptions of them.... People will always have an interest in labeling,' or as Slot Machine suggests, insisting that everyone has a slot that they need to locate in order to fit comfortably into an ordered social organization. Lynch sees his work as a direct challenge to this kind of conformist thinking, asserting, 'it is up to the individual to escape the label. To grow out of it. To be more than the label says. I sort of tell my readers that all the time.' Slot Machine concentrates on a young man— thirteen but often sounding as if he were going on thirty—who would seem particularly vulnerable to the...

Lynch (Gypsy Davey, 1994, etc.) lightens up in this story of three teenagers sent to camp at a seminary, ostensibly to prepare for high school. To his dismay, Elvin and two friends discover that it's a thinly disguised sports camp, designed to give the school's athletic program an illegal jump-start. Overweight, Elvin is immediately assigned to the football sector, which is a bone-crunching. The book Freewill by Chris Lynch was about this teenage boy who seems to be a loner with a somewhat traumatic background. He lives with his grandparents and goes this school for certain kinds of people. Lynch is very vague throughout the book.

Chris Lynch (born July 2, 1962)^[1] is an American writer of books for young people. His works include Inexcusable, a finalist for the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and Iceman,'The Right Fight', Shadow Boxer, Gold Dust, and Slot Machine, all ALA Best Books for Young Adults; Freewill was also a runne-up for the Michael L. Printz Award. Some of his works are intended for a high school level audience; some for children and younger teenagers.

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His short story 'The Pellet in the paint can' has been included in the collection Guys Write for Guys Read. (New York: Viking, 2005),^[2] and 'Arrangements' was included in No Such Thing as the Real World (Harper Collins, 2009 ISBN978-0-06-147058-5).

Lynch was born in Boston^[1] where he graduated from Emerson College^{[citation needed]} and teaches Creative Writing at Lesley University as of 2011.

Books[edit]

• Cyberia (Scholastic Press, 2008, ISBN978-0-545-02793-9) held in over 500 libraries according to WorldCat ^[3] and Cyberia #2: Monkey See, Monkey Don't (Scholastic Press, 2009 ISBN978-0-545-02794-6)
• 'The Big Game of Everything (Harper Teen, 2008) held in about 600 libraries according to WorldCat ^[4]
• 'Me, dead Dad and Alcatraz' (HarperCollins, 2005, ISBN978-0-06-059710-8) held in over 500 libraries according to WorldCat ^[5]
  • Reviewed in School Library Journal and Booklist
• Sins of the Fathers (Harper Tempest, 2006)
• Inexcusable (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005) held in about 1700 libraries according to WorldCat ^[6]
  • Korean translation: 용서할수없는 / Yongsŏ halsu ŏmnŭn (메타포, Sŏul-si : Metʻapʻo, 2008.)
• The gravedigger's cottage 2005
• Who the man 2002
• All the old haunts 2001
• Freewill (Harper Teen, 2001, ISBN978-0-06-447202-9) held in about 1600 libraries according to WorldCat
  • Reviews: Horn Book, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews
  • German translation: Nenn es wie du willst (Hamburg : Carlsen, 2003)
• Gold dust 2000 held in about 1400 libraries according to WorldCat
• Extreme Elvin 1999
• Whitechurch 1999
• He-Man Women Hater's Club
  • The Wolf Gang 1998
  • Johnny Chesthair 1997
  • Ladies Choice 1997
  • Scratch and the Sniffs 1997
  • Babes in the Wood
  • Little Rascals 1994
• Mick and Dog eat dog 1996
• Blood relations 1996
• Political timber 1996
• Slot Machine 1995
• Iceman 1994
• Gypsy Davey 1994
  • Italian translation: Davey il vagabond (Milano : Mondadori, 2001)
• Shadow Boxer 1993
• 'Vietnam: I Pledge Allegiance' 2011
• 'Vietnam: Sharpshooter' 2012
• 'Vietnam: Free-Fire Zone' 2012
• 'Vietnam: Casualties Of War' 2013
• 'Vietnam: Walking Wounded' 2014
• 'World War II: The Right Fight' 2013
• 'World War II: Dead In the Water' 2013
• 'World War II: Alive And Kicking' 2014
• 'World War II: The Liberators' 2015

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abChris Lynch at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved 2014-02-12.
2. ^Scieszka, Jon, ed. (2005). Guys Write for Guys Read. New York: Viking.
3. ^'Cyberia (Book, 2008)'. [WorldCat.org]. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
4. ^'The big game of everything (Book, 2008)'. [WorldCat.org]. 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
5. ^'Me, dead Dad & Alcatraz (Book, 2005)'. [WorldCat.org]. 2011-10-25. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
6. ^'Inexcusable (Book, 2005)'. [WorldCat.org]. 2011-11-02. Retrieved 2012-02-22.

External links[edit]

• Chris Lynch at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Chris Lynch at Library of Congress Authorities, with 42 catalog records

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