Early in the fall, he sees all his ideas of fair play go up in smoke; by spring, what he cares about most has been destroyed. How can Louie keep going when he's lost everything?

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 41 reviews)

two words FREAKIN AWESOME

This book is about a high school kid who has it all a starting spot on his football team, a beutiful girlfriend and good friends, till one day
one of his teammates got into trouble and louie stook up for the other
kid. by doing that he got kicked out the football team, almost a month later his girlfriend dies in a car accident leaving him with nothing except his friends. during her funeral louie can't take anymore of the priest's talking and makes an outburst.
the school plants a tree in her memory.

sorry if this isn't helpful but u need to read it to beleive
March 10, 2008

I didn't really care about this book!

This book was horrible! I hated Running Loose so much. It had no plot at all. It jumped around so much you can't even tell what is going. It is full of bullies, football, and there is one death. I won't tell you who but the book revolves around her. I would defiantly never recommend this book to anybody. If you want to waste your time read this book.
December 14, 2007

Football Morality

Louis Banks is a football player who doesn't like his coach. His coach is really nasty and seems to take pleasure in verbally abusing his players. Louis is willing to deal with the abuse, though, in order to get to play. Then one day the coach tells him and the rest of the team to do something unsportsmanlike--to physically hurt a member of another team in order to keep him out of the rest of the game and the rest of the seasn, if possible. Louis doesn't like that idea at all, and he ends up off of the football team, choosing to do the moral thing rather than what the coach wanted.

Louis is okay being off of the team. His family is very supportive and so is his girlfriend, Becky. But then tragedy strikes Louis' life and he has to learn to deal with loss and pain and anger, without football as an outlet.

I liked Louis' parents. It was easy to see where a character like Louis wouls get his strength.
February 23, 2007

Great book by Chris Crutcher

This book Running Loose by Chris Crutcher was a very good book. It took a short while to get into it but once you did it was hard to put down. In the book, a kid named Louie Banks has everything going his way so far in his life. Chris does a great job of bringing Louie to life in this book. Louie is a senior attending Trout High School in Trout, Idaho. He has a beautiful girlfriend that no one expected him to have; even himself, and a great spot on the eight-man football team. During one of the games, Louie explodes because one of his teammates, Boomer Cowans, purposely hits a kid and puts him out of the game. He has to put up with Boomer, the big bully of the school, constantly after that. Louie gets into a big fight with the coach and gets kicked off of the team. Carter Sampson, the quarterback of the team and Louie's best friend, helps him through his problems. Things start to go downhill from there. Louie has other big problems to face but you will have to find out for yourself what they are. I really liked the fact that this was a very realistic book and could happen to anybody in high school. Louie goes through problems that anybody could face in the real world today. I really enjoyed this book.
December 16, 2005

Running Loose

Louie Bank's life is great, but all that changes with a blink of an eye. Louie has great friends, a fabulous girlfriend and football. He has some bad things though like a messed up football coach and a bully that wants to beat him up. Louie has been training hard all off season of football. He just wants a starting position. He trains with his best friend Carter. Carter is a big, strong, and smart guy. Louie makes a starting position on the eight man football team with Carter at quarter back. There is one more guy for mention Boomer Cowans. He is the starting running back. Boomer is big and strong, but as dumb as a log. Louie has the most popular girlfriend in the whole school. Her name is Becky Sanders. She means the world to Louie. Then something happens that will turn his life around. Will Louie ever survive what happened?
This is a great book about a high school kid. This book is great for a few reasons. The first one is it keeps you guessing on what will happen next. The second reason is this could happen in real life. I recommend this book to anyone that likes football, a little romance and a lot of fun. This book scores my vote for the player of the game.

March 16, 2005

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