“Challenger Deep is a novel written by Neal Shusterman. The story is written in the first person, and the protagonist is letting readers follow his inside thoughts to understand more about mental illness. Furthermore, the story also contains the author’s own experience with mental illness. The readers can read some thoughts from mental illness patients. Meanwhile, the theme of the book is helping people to understand how the challenge will be for mental illness patients when they get through their therapy. Also, the book is written about how people may misunderstand mental illness. Therefore, this book is helping people to understand mental illness patients.”
-Sisi S., grade 12
Sisi would recommend this book to people who want to understand more about mental illness.
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