Crowe has written many reviews of young adult literature. He has been a contributor or editor of a wide variety of journals including
Medical English and
English Journal. He has also written articles on general trends in young adult literature including the chapter “Mormon Values in Young Adult Literature,” in
The Last Taboo: Spirituality in Young Adult Literature (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2015). Books he has written include
From the Outside Looking In: Short Stories for LDS Teenagers and
Fatherhood, Football and Turning Forty: Confessions of a Middle-Aged Mormon Male, Presenting Mildred D. Taylor, Teaching the Selected Works of Mildred D. Taylor, Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case, and
Up Close: Thurgood Marshall. Crowe edited with Jesse S. Crisler the 2007 BYU Press publication
How I Came to Write: LDS Authors for Young Adults. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled
Teaching for Social Justice Using Young Adult Literature: Sports and the Quest for Civil Rights for the Rowman and Littlefield Series
Teaching for Social Justice Using Young Adult Literature. His debut novel,
Mississippi Trial, 1955 (2002) on the
Emmett Till case received mixed reviews. It also won several awards including the International Reading Association's Young Adult Novel Award. In 2012 he had his first children's book published ''Just As Good: How Larry Doby Changed America's Game
. In 2014 his novel Death Coming Up the Hill'' was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book deals with racism and the Vietnam War and is written in 976 haiku stanzas, with a syllable for every American soldier killed in Vietnam in 1968. It won the 2014 Whitney Award for Young Adult fiction and was named to the American Librarian Association's Best Fiction for Young Adults in 2016. ==Notes==