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Deadline by Chris Crutcher
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Deadline (original 2007; edition 2007)

by Chris Crutcher

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Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
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Title:Deadline
Authors:Chris Crutcher
Info:Greenwillow Books (2007), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Deadline by Chris Crutcher (2007)

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What marvelous and well-rounded characters! Every one of them has a reason for being, and the author reveals them, sometimes through a dream character named Hey-Soos. Respect everyone’s journey.
There is also some side exposition about school curriculum, particularly in history and civics, that just now is in the news and general awareness. (Book was published in 2007.)
This is my first exposure to Crutcher, but I will read him again.
Also pleased to see the publisher, Greenwillow Books, still with the excellence I remember from when my kids were small. ( )
  2wonderY | Sep 3, 2023 |
2 stars

It had its moments, but ultimately unremarkable. ( )
  QuirkyCat_13 | Jun 20, 2022 |
At first I didn't like this book. The language was typical Crutcher, breezy, a little too smart alecky, and teenagey. Used "way" way too much. The premise was a little too hard to believe also. But as I got into it, I loved it and couldn't put it down. It was sooo sad. ( )
  Dairyqueen84 | Mar 15, 2022 |
A moving and funny tale of a teenage boy who wants to live before he dies. Have tissue handy for the last third of the book. ( )
  Sarah220 | Jan 23, 2021 |
Ben is looking forward to his senior year of high school when he is diagnosed with a lethal form of cancer. Since he is 18, he convinces his doctors not to tell his parents so he can live his last year as he chooses. Ben, who has always been a cross country guy, decides to play football; talk to the girl of his dreams; and harass his social studies teacher. Palmyra high school students would recognize this harassment as something Mr. Smyser would do in student form.

This book is for students who want the courage to try new things. Ben is an inspiration in spite of his circumstances.
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  readingbeader | Oct 29, 2020 |
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My plan was to focus my senior year on information I could use after graduation when I set out for Planet Earth from the Pluto that is Trout, Idaho, population 943.
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Plus, I'm blessed with the one thing no one on our team or any other team has. I'm blessed with nothing to lose. --pg. 20
Planet Earth is a tough town.
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Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."

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Ben Wolf, after finding out that he has an aggressive blood disease over the summer, decides he must make the most of the year that he is given to live. He makes his doctor swear not to tell anyone about the disease, as he wants as normal of a high school senior's year as he can get. Ben decides that he has to fit the rest of his life into a year. He goes out for the football team, asks out the girl he had always been afraid of, and grows closer to the town drunk without fear, because he believes he has nothing to lose. However, it is never that easy, and Ben has to face some difficult decisions about the truth and trust during the one year he has.
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