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| Author | Chris Crutcher |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Young adult novel |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
Publication date | 2007 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 336 pp |
| ISBN | 0-06-085091-4 |
Deadline is a young adult novel by young adult writer Chris Crutcher that was published in 2007. [1] The story follows a high school senior named Ben Wolf, who is given one year to live after being diagnosed with a rare, incurable blood disease
Ben Wolf is an 18-year-old high school student from Trout, Idaho. He lives with his father, his mother, who is mentally ill, and his younger brother, Cody, who is a superb football player and attends the same high school as him.
During school one day, Doctor Wagner, the town doctor, diagnoses Ben with a rare, terminal blood disease. Doctor Wagner gives him only about a year to live and recommends that Ben seek treatment in a more urban part of the state. However, rather than following his doctor's advice, Ben decides he must pack “a lifetime of living” into one year and begins making radical changes for his senior year. Despite Doctor Wagner's disapproval, Ben chooses not to tell his parents about his disease. The only people who know about his disease are his doctor and his new therapist, Marla, a young psychologist from Boise.
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