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. A captivating story about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, the novel features haunting interior illustrations by Neal Shusterman's son Brendan. Paperback -Challenger Deep is a deeply powerful and personal novel by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman. and as fantasy and paranoia begin to take over, his parents have only one choice left Caden Bosch is dealing with schizophrenia. 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 designated the ship's artist in residence to document the journey with images. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior. "A novel" - Jacket.-Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-313).-"A teenage boy struggles with schizophrenia" -Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-313) National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature, 2015 Poirot, Carylye, and others to undergo treatment."A teenage boy struggles with schizophrenia"-īoston Globe/Horn Book Fiction Honor, 2015 Caden’s parents ultimately have Caden committed to Seaview Memorial Hospital.Īt Seaview, Caden meets with Dr.
At the same time, Caden begins to have visions of the Captain, begins to “feel” things around him, stops eating, and becomes paranoid.
Caden first loses focus, then the ability to concentrate at all, followed by restlessness and increasing abstraction in his artwork. But through the course of his sophomore year in high school, Caden succumbs to a never-named mental illness which slowly manifests over time.
He does well in school, is athletic and artistic, and well-liked by other students and teachers.
He has a loving mother and father, a sweet younger sister, and good friends, including Shelby. Caden is, by all accounts, a normal teenager. Caden Bosch is the 15-year-old narrator and principal protagonist of the novel “Challenger Deep” by Neal Shusterman.
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