Challenger Deep

By SHUSTERMAN, Neal

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ISBN
9780061134111
Publisher
HarperCollins HarperTeen


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School Library Journal

Starred Review on February 1, 2015  |  Grades 9 and Up

Gr 9 Up—Caden Bosch lives in two worlds. One is his real life with his family, his friends, and high school. There he is paranoid for no reason, thinks people are trying to kill him, and demonstrates obsessive compulsive behaviors. In his other world, he's part of the crew for a pirate captain on a voyage to the Challenger Deep, the ocean's deepest trench. There he's paranoid, wary of the mercurial captain and his mutinous parrot, and tries hard to inter...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Magazine

Reviewed on April 1, 2015

This novel is a challenge to the reader from its first lines: author Shusterman takes us into the seemingly random, rambling, and surreal fantasies of fifteen-year-old Caden Bosch (yes, it makes sense to associate him with artist Hieronymus) as mental illness increasingly governs his consciousness. Fantasies about a pirate ship ruled by an abrasive one-eyed captain and his parrot, its deck swarming with feral brains (for example) commingle with Caden's somewhat more com...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Guide

Reviewed on January 1, 2015

The surreal fantasies of fifteen-year-old Caden Bosch commingle with more comprehensible accounts of family and school, until his parents...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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