Crutcher, Chris. The Sledding Hill

book: Crutcher, Chris. The Sledding Hill
Location: I found it in my house if you want it ask me

The Sledding Hill is a book that is told in first person, through Billy Bartholomew who, dies in the first chapter. Billy is smart, but he is a trouble maker like his best friend, Eddie Proffit. Eddie is also smart, but his brain jumps from one thing to another, in the blink of an eye so, Eddie has a problem talking in class without raising his hand. At one point Billy put a dog bark collar on Eddie’s leg so when he was about to talk Billy would shock him. Then over the summer one day Billy kicked a stack of Sheetrock and it snapped his neck. The two boys where about to go into high school where there is an English teacher named Tarter who is also a preacher. Tarter is a strict teacher, who if you talk out of line in his classroom, you would have to stand in the front of class with your arms out. Eddie’s dad and Tarter would fight Science versus Religion and Eddie believed his dad that Science is right about the creation of earth. Then one day Eddie’s dad, who owned a gas station that was the only station in town that worked on trucks and big rigs. Eddie’s dad was fixing tires one day one exploded and Eddie was the first to find him, and he found Billy but could not move the rocks. Since they both died in a matter of three months. The two boys, Eddie and Billy signed up for a class called Really Modern literature. In this class they had to read a book called Warren Peese written by: Chris Crutcher, this book has some controversial issues, and Mr. Tarter wants it banned so he uses the youth group to form a complaint about the book.