Neal Shusterman, a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author presents Challenger Deep —Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Young People’s Literature—in which a brilliant high school student battling schizophrenia is split between his allegiance to the captain of a galleon that’s headed for the deepest point on Earth and the allure of mutiny. Growing up is hard enough without the pressure to be a certain kind of “perfect.” In Tamara Ireland Stone’s Every Last Word and Corey Ann Haydu’s Making Pretty, finding your personal “perfect” is the key to loving your natural self.

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