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- English
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Challenger Deep
About this book
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."
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum
- 2. Forever Down There
- 3. Better for This
- 4. How They Get You
- 5. I Am the Compass
- 6. So Disruptive
- 7. Charitable Abyss
- 8. Reality Check
- 9. You Are Not the First and You Will Not Be the Last
- 10. In the Fright Kitchen
- 11. Nothing Awful Is without Its Beautiful Side
- 12. Spree
- 13. No Such Thing as Down
- 14. Can’t Get There from Here
- 15. No Passage of Space
- 16. Swabby
- 17. I’d Pay to See That
- 18. Mystery Ashtray
- 19. Deconstructing Xargon
- 20. Parrots Always Smile
- 21. Crew Member Questionnaire
- 22. The Mattress Didn’t Save Him
- 23. Eight-Point-Five Seconds
- 24. Don’t Think You Own It
- 25. You Were Not Given Permission
- 26. All Things Not Nice
- 27. Hand-Sanitized Masses
- 28. Skippy Rainbow
- 29. Some of My Best Friends Are Cirque-ish
- 30. The Movements of Flies
- 31. Is That All They’re Worth?
- 32. Less Than Nothing
- 33. Weakness Leaving the Body
- 34. Behind Her Back
- 35. The Unusual Suspects
- 36. Without Her We’re Lost
- 37. Third Eye Blind
- 38. Ah, Here’s the Proboscis
- 39. Stars on My Scantron
- 40. Hell Asail
- 41. Nothing of Interest
- 42. Spirit of Battle
- 43. It’s All Kabuki
- 44. Boss Key
- 45. Ten Graves Deep
- 46. Food Fight
- 47. We Even Have a Diving Bell
- 48. Really That Lonely
- 49. Don’t You Want a Whopper?
- 50. Garage Widows
- 51. Not Entirely Me
- 52. Evidence of the Truth
- 53. Hindsight at My Feet
- 54. Due Diligence
- 55. A Regular Infestation
- 56. The Stars Are Right
- 57. The Chemicals between Us
- 58. Head-banger
- 59. Man on Fire
- 60. The Things They Say
- 61. Check Brain
- 62. More Alive Than You Think
- 63. People I Don’t Know in Places I Can’t See
- 64. If Snails Could Talk
- 65. The Darkness Beyond
- 66. Your Terrifying Awesomeness
- 67. The Flesh Between
- 68. Worm Inside
- 69. Your Meaning Is Irrelevant
- 70. Silver Shark
- 71. A Worse Enemy
- 72. Our Only Hope
- 73. The Honors
- 74. In God We Trust
- 75. Safety Locks
- 76. No Way to Stop It
- 77. Oil Slick
- 78. Realm of the Forgiving Sun
- 79. Submitted for Your Approval
- 80. Salted Slug
- 81. War of the Nemesi
- 82. Deep in the Throat of Doom
- 83. Clockwork Robots
- 84. Lost Landscape
- 85. All Meat Must Be Tenderized
- 86. Therapy Rodeo
- 87. All That We’ve Worked For
- 88. Toxic Tide
- 89. Streets Green with Blood
- 90. Atlas Drugged
- 91. Not in the Olympics at All
- 92. The Greater Unknown
- 93. No Other Way
- 94. Critical Mass
- 95. Windmills of My Mind
- 96. Divine Dealer
- 97. Can I Trust You?
- 98. Decomposed Potential
- 99. Running on Saturn’s Rings
- 100. Her Embedded Extremities
- 101. A Piece of Skye
- 102. Severe Nails
- 103. Magic Mantras and Latex Poodles
- 104. Mutinous Mutton
- 105. Out of Alignment
- 106. The Skin of Who We Were
- 107. The Fo’c’sle Key
- 108. Up or Drown?
- 109. When Ink Acts Up
- 110. Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 111. Hot for You
- 112. Abstract Angular Angst
- 113. Who They Were
- 114. Happy Paper Cup
- 115. Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble
- 116. Dirty Martini
- 117. While You Were Out
- 118. Zimple Physics
- 119. Little Chatterbox
- 120. The Maps Say Otherwise
- 121. Mentally We Roll Along
- 122. Historically Freaking
- 123. Bard and Dog
- 124. Hating the Messenger
- 125. Promenade
- 126. A Fine Kind of Pain
- 127. Have You Considered That Maybe It Was Intentional?
- 128. Intestinal Time-share
- 129. Against Us
- 130. Stay Broken
- 131. Cardboard Forts
- 132. Without Whispering
- 133. Crestmare Alley
- 134. On the Other Side of the Glass
- 135. Which Is More Horrifying?
- 136. Becoming a Constellation
- 137. Lost Horizon
- 138. Marksman on the Fields of Color
- 139. The Rest Is Silence
- 140. The Time of Words Is Over
- 141. Like He Never Existed
- 142. Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been?
- 143. Fail
- 144. Other Places
- 145. Soul of Our Mission
- 146. Psychonoxious
- 147. Genetic Life-form and Disk Operating System
- 148. Squirrelly
- 149. Half-life
- 150. Last Man Standing
- 151. King of All Destinies
- 152. Scarecrow
- 153. The Overwhelming Never
- 154. Challenger Deep
- 155. Vestibule
- 156. No Miracles Here
- 157. Kind of Like Religion
- 158. Morons in High Places
- 159. 10:03.
- 160. The Way It Works
- 161. Points Exotic
- Author’s Note
- Resources
- About the Author and Artist
- Books by Neal Shusterman
- Credits
- Back Ads
- Copyright
- About the Publisher