Challenger Deep

Neal Shusterman

Apr 2015 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

National Book Award * Golden Kite Award Winner * Six Starred Reviews

A captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman.

Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench.
Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior.

Caden Bosch is designated the ship's artist in residence to document the journey with images.
Caden Bosch pretends to join the school track team but spends his days walking for miles, absorbed by the thoughts in his head.

Caden Bosch is split between his allegiance to the captain and the allure of mutiny.
Caden Bosch is torn.

Challenger Deep is a deeply powerful and personal novel from one of today's most admired writers for teens. Laurie Halse Anderson, award-winning author of Speak, calls Challenger Deep "a brilliant journey across the dark sea of the mind; frightening, sensitive, and powerful. Simply extraordinary."

Ratings and reviews

the complexity and intimacy of this book hits you as soon as you open the book. however, the way the author describes Cadons illness in such a perfect, and intimate way, really helps the reader to relate to and enjoy the somewhat encrypted nature of this novel. as you read, the strange language the novel speaks becomes more and more clear as it guides you on a winding sea that twists and turns unpredictably. with this book, you do not know where it will take you, and you must think to see in between the lines, but the lessons and emotions it leaves you with, are irreplaceable. truly, this is one of the best books in history.

I loved this so much. Someone i know may be going through something like this so it was nice to know what its like. I also identified with the main character more than any other character in a book iv read

This book is proof positive that literary excellence can happen in today's YA section.

About the author

Neal Shusterman is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of more than fifty books, including Challenger Deep, which won the National Book Award; Scythe, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book; Dry, which he cowrote with his son, Jarrod Shusterman; Unwind, which won more than thirty domestic and international awards; Bruiser, which was on a dozen state lists; The Schwa Was Here, winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award; and Game Changer, which debuted as an indie top-five best seller. He is the winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for the body of his work. You can visit him online at storyman.com.