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Chris Lynch



Chris Lynch is a National Book Award finalist and the author of several highly acclaimed books for young adults, including Me, Dead Dad, & Alcatraz and the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Freewill, as well as Iceman, Shadow Boxer, Gold Dust, and Slot Machine, all four ALA Best Books for Young Adults and winners of several other prestigious awards. He holds an MFA from the writing program at Emerson College. He lives in Scotland and has two children.
 

Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Children's Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
March 2024

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Walkin' the Dog
 
Series
Blue-eyed Son
   1. Mick (1995)
   2. Blood Relations (1996)
   3. Dog Eat Dog (1996)
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Elvin Bishop
   1. Slot Machine (1995)
   2. Extreme Elvin (1999)
   3. Me, Dead Dad, and Alcatraz (2005)
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He-Man Women Hater's Club
   1. Johnny Chesthair (1997)
   2. Babes in the Woods (1997)
   3. Scratch and the Sniffs (1997)
   Ladies' Choice (1997)
   4. The Wolf Gang (1998)
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Inexcusable
   1. Inexcusable (2005)
   2. Irreversible (2016)
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Cyberia
   1. Cyberia (2008)
   2. Monkey See, Monkey Don't (2009)
   3. Prime Evil (2010)
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Vietnam
   1. I Pledge Allegiance (2011)
   2. Sharpshooter (2012)
   3. Free-Fire Zone (2012)
   4. Casualties of War (2013)
   5. Walking Wounded (2014)
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World War II
   1. The Right Fight (2014)
   2. Dead in the Water (2014)
   3. Alive and Kicking (2015)
   4. The Liberators (2015)
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Special Forces
   1. Unconventional Warfare (2018)
   2. Minesweeper (2019)
   3. Good Devils (2020)
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Novels
   Shadow Boxer (1993)
   Iceman (1994)
   Gypsy Davey (1994)
   Dreams in Black and White (1995)
   Political Timber (1996)
   Whitechurch (1999)
   Gold Dust (2000)
   Freewill (2001)
   Who the Man (2002)
   The Gravedigger's Cottage (2004)
   Sins of the Fathers (2006)
   The Big Game of Everything (2008)
   Hothouse (2010)
   Angry Young Man (2011)
   Kill Switch (2012)
   Pieces (2013)
   Little Blue Lies (2014)
   Killing Time in Crystal City (2015)
   Hit Count (2015)
   Walkin' the Dog (2024)
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Collections
   Chiller (1995) (with others)
   All the Old Haunts (2001)
   No Such Thing as the Real World (2009) (with others)
   Shadows And Teeth: Volume 2 (2017) (with others)
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Series contributed to
After Dark
   30. The Spirited Boy (1998) (with Libby Hathorn)
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Graphic Novels show
 
Chris Lynch recommends
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Call Me by My Name (2014)
John Ed Bradley
"The book is so many other things that football might come third or fourth on the list. It is unflinching American history, it is cultural anthropology and it is a riveting morality play. Probably most of all it is a love story of the finest kind because it hurts all over and it mercilessly pits one kind of love against another in a genuine blood sport. John Ed Bradley has gathered a fine and believable cast of characters to tell a tough story, but above all Rodney Boulet stands as one of the most authentically, uncomfortably honest adolescent males I have read in quite some time."

Books containing stories by Chris Lynch
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Taking Aim (2015)
Power and Pain, Teens and Guns
edited by
Michael Cart
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Dreaming Again (2008)
Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction
(Dreaming Down-Under, book 2)
edited by
Jack Dann
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Places I Never Meant to Be (1999)
Original Stories by Censored Writers
edited by
Judy Blume

Awards
Michael L. Printz Award Best Book nominee (2002) : Freewill


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