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Courtney C. Stevens
Courtney C Stevens is a young adult writer among other things. Stevens has written three novels and one novella. Faking Normal, The Blue-Haired Boy (novella), The Lies About Truth, and Dress Codes for Small Towns. In her free time you can find Courtney eating chips and queso, rock climbing, and naming tattoos. She also has a pet whale named Herman, and a bandsaw named rex.

Background
Courtney grew up in Kentucky, a small town among rivers, cornfields, churches and gossip. She is a former adjunct professor, youth minister and Olympic torchbearer. Since Courtney is a former educator and current writer, she visits schools, designs retreats and teaches workshops on marketing, revision, character development, and Channeling Your Brave. When Stevens is not traveling for her job working in schools, teaching workshops, or influencing young minds, you can find her in Nashville, Tennessee. ===

Courtney C. Stevens
Courtney C Stevens is a young adult writer among other things. Stevens has written three novels and one novella. Faking Normal, The Blue-Haired Boy (novella), The Lies About Truth, and Dress Codes for Small Towns. In her free time you can find Courtney eating chips and queso, rock climbing, and naming tattoos. She also has a pet whale named Herman, and a bandsaw named rex.

Background
Courtney grew up in Kentucky, a small town among rivers, cornfields, churches and gossip. She is a former adjunct professor, youth minister and Olympic torchbearer. Since Courtney is a former educator and current writer, she visits schools, designs retreats and teaches workshops on marketing, revision, character development, and Channeling Your Brave. When Stevens is not traveling for her job working in schools, teaching workshops, or influencing young minds, you can find her in Nashville, Tennessee.

Career
Courtney is a Young Adult writer. However, she also spends a majority of her time with children. Courtney travels from school to school to speak to students.

“Courtney didn’t come in to talk at us about her book, she came and talked with us about life experience, healing, and strength. She is definitely one of the most open and honest people I have ever had the honor to meet. She gave me a fresh wave of confidence in myself and the dreams I have chosen to pursue, in spite of the odds of success. She told us to dedicate ourselves to what we love, and never, for a second, question our ability to do the impossible.” – Laine Binnix, Class of 2014, Bowling Green High School, Bowling Green, KY

Inspirations
Courtney "got into writing for this age group because I love people that are this age that are making this decision about who they're going be and who they wanna be with and maybe what they're going to pursue in the future. I love those things". Courtney is invested in peoples lives, she wants to give away more than she takes. Courtney also states that" having the opportunity to partner with the next generation of world changers through the written word"

Books
"Alexi Littrell hasn't told anyone what happened to her over the summer. Ashamed and embarrassed, she hides in her closet and compulsively scratches the back of her neck, trying to make the outside hurt more than the inside does.
 * Faking Normal:

When Bodee Lennox, the quiet and awkward boy next door, comes to live with the Littrells, Alexi discovers an unlikely friend in "the Kool-Aid Kid," who has secrets of his own. As they lean on each other for support, Alexi gives him the strength to deal with his past, and Bodee helps her find the courage to finally face the truth."


 * The Blue- Haired Boy - novella The Blue-Haired Boy

"Bodee Lennox has secrets. About where he got the four-inch scar on his leg. About the bruises on his back. About what it's really like to live in the Lennox household. These are things he doesn't share with anyone . . . until he meets Gerry, a girl with bright-green hair and a smile the size of Alaska. When Gerry falls out of a bus in Rickman, Tennessee, and lands at Bodee's feet, she gives Bodee two things he desperately needs: a friend and a chance to leave Rickman behind, even if it's just for a few hours. He joins Gerry on her epic bus trip for as far as his money will take him. And by the end of the day, more of Bodee has changed than just the color of his hair"


 * The Lies About Truth:

Sadie Kingston is living in the aftermath. A year after surviving a car accident that killed her friend Trent and left her body and face scarred, she can't move forward. The only person who seems to understand her is Trent's brother, Max. As Sadie begins to fall for Max, she's unsure if she is truly healed enough to be with him. But Max looks at her scars and doesn't shy away. And Max knows about the list she writes in the sand at the beach every night, the list of things that Sadie knows she must accomplish before she can move on from the accident. And while he can help her with number six (kiss someone without flinching), she knows she's on her own with number three (forgive Gina and Gray) and the rest of the seemingly impossible tasks that must be made possible before she can live in the now again.

"As the tomboy daughter of the town’s preacher, Billie McCaffrey has always struggled with fitting the mold of what everyone says she should be. She’d rather wear sweats, build furniture, and get into trouble with her solid group of friends: Woods, Mash, Davey, Fifty, and Janie Lee.
 * Dress Codes For Small Towns:

But when Janie Lee confesses to Billie that she’s in love with Woods, Billie’s filled with a nagging sadness as she realizes that she is also in love with Woods…and maybe with Janie Lee, too.

Always considered “one of the guys,” Billie doesn’t want anyone slapping a label on her sexuality before she can understand it herself. So she keeps her conflicting feelings to herself, for fear of ruining the group dynamic. Except it’s not just about keeping the peace, it’s about understanding love on her terms—this thing that has always been defined as a boy and a girl falling in love and living happily ever after. For Billie—a box-defying dynamo—it’s not that simple."

Awards
Faking Normal:
 * Georgia Peach - Nominee
 * Bluegrass Award - Winner
 * Volunteer State Book Award - Nominee
 * Elliot Rosewater Indiana State Book Award - Nominee
 * Crystal Kite - Winner
 * Battle of the Books - Nominee

Faking Normal
Courtney C. Stevens is known for her book Faking Normal, it is a young adult novel that covers a difficult topic, that young people can relate to.

"An edgy, realistic debut novel praised by the New York Times best selling author of Between Shade of Gray, Ruta Sepetys, as "a beautiful reminder that amid our broken pieces we can truly find ourselves"

"The original concept of the book was born out of several things, among them the question, “Why can’t I say no?” I wanted a character who deals with boundary issues as that’s something very personal to me."

Themes
Rape: Outcast Bodee Lennox and Alexi Littrell become friends due to Bodee's mother's murder. Through this friendship, Alexi learns to confide in Bodee and eventually tells him about what happened over the summer. Stevens also writes about how Alexi feels like she can't come forward to tell people what happened over the summer and how she couldn't say no to her predator. She touches on the tough subject of rape victims and the process that they go through in society of feeling alone and trying to cope with the attack. Another, point made in the book is that Alexi's virginity was taken away by her attacker. "1 out of every 6 American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rap in her lifetime"

"That question led to issues of sexual abuse and recovering trust. I decided it would take a special boy to see through the walls of this girl; that he would have to be someone who truly understood abuse, which is what added the layers of Bodee’s background.""

Coping Mechanisms: In this book, Stevens represents different coping mechanisms for victims of sexual assault and tragedy. In the book Alexi, the main character, goes into her closet and scratches the back of her neck until it bleeds as a way to cope, she also counts the slots on her vent. While Bodee who has just experienced his mother's death and the abuse of his father, copes by dying his hair and laying underneath his bed doing pull-ups.

Tragedy:Bodee's mother is murdered by his father, he is left homeless, which is then taken in by the Litterel's. Alexi goes through her own type of tragedy of trying to cope with the attack that happened over summer with her sister's fiance, as well as the tragedy of not knowing how to say No to potential attackers throughout the book. There is also tragedy in the form of break-ups, relationship and friendship issues.

Messages
Faking Normal: There are a few instances throughout the book that the phrase "faking normal" was used to really emphasize the point of the characters pretending that they were okay.

"Faking normal is a skill I learned seventy-seven days ago, but tonight it’s going to require everything I have."

Faking normal references the ability to put up a front for people around you, so they don't realize how you feel on the inside. Not only is it the title of the book, but it is the overall theme to the whole book. It is about noticing that other people are going through other struggles, but outsiders can't tell because the person struggling has gotten good at covering it up - "regret. Because the very thing she worries about in Bodee, his ability to fake normal, she has dismissed in me. Thank the good Lord. I am glad I haven’t given her cause to worry over me."

Channeling Your Brave: Channeling your brave is movement that Courtney C. Stevens has created based on the Faking Normal. In the book Alexi has to channel her brave by coming forward and telling her sister and family about being raped over the summer. She also channels her brave by not taking her emotions out on her neck, her coping mechanism to make the pain go away. Channeling Brave is to stand up and do what you are afraid of. "I’m just another human who has been there. I’m channeling brave right now, too, because I’m worried that you might be hurting. And I hate that. The only way I know how to help is to offer a few dimes of truth that amazing people have given to me over the years."

Channeling Brave, is a platforms for young adult writers to write about overcoming a terrifying time, as well as, a platform for girls to use to boost their confidence and to give them support, when it seems like there isn't any support left.

Channeling Brave

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Related Links
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Faking Normal YouTube Interview

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