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Deadline (2007) (edit title/settings)

by Chris Crutcher (Author) (edit contributors)

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Ben Wolf has big things planned for his senior year. Had big things planned. Now what he has is some very bad news and only one year left to make his mark on the world. How can a pint-sized, smart-ass seventeen-year-old do anything significant in the nowheresville of Trout, Idaho? ... read more

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Ben Wolf a Sr. in high school discovers he has one year to live when he went to the doctor for his one year Cross Country check up. He decides that he isn't going to tell anyone that he is dying, and he isn't going to get treatment for it. So, his doctor insists that he gets a therapist. After... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Ben Wolf a Sr. in high school discovers he has one year to live when he went to the doctor for his one year Cross Country check up. He decides that he isn't going to tell anyone that he is dying, and he isn't going to get treatment for it. So, his doctor insists that he gets a therapist. After all this, he decides he isn't going out for cross country and is going to do footbal, with his brother, the star quarterback of the school. That might be the best decision of his short life because he gets a joint scholorship to attend Boise State University with his brother, as long as they play football. In the end, it is too difficlut for Ben to hold in this secret, so he starts to tell his friends and family that he is dying. He looses the love of his life after telling everyone he is dying because she thinks it is too much to handle. Ben learns a lot about hi self in his last year of life.

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  • Ben Wolf: senior in high school. Finds out he has cancer, secretive, smart,caring about others, likes malcolm X.
  • Dallas Suzuki: shes very athletic and is very hard to become friends with. she is a jock, Dallas is Ben's crush. She plays volleyball.
  • Cody Wolf: Ben's brother. He is the starting QB and Ben's younger brother.
  • Rudy McCoy: The town alcoholic
  • Mr. Lambeer: Ben's teacher, who hates him because he always interrupts his teaching to talk about Malcolm X. He is not a main character.
  • Joe Henry: A little boy who likes to play catch with Ben
  • Marla: Marla is Ben's therapist, she sets goals with Ben and tries to achieve them.
  • Mr. Cowans: Sooner Cowans' father
  • Hey-Soos: He is Ben's therapist in his dreams and who he confides in. He looks like Jesus and has the same sounding name but he does not represent Jesus.
  • Doc Wagner: Doc Wagner was Ben's doctor. He was the one who found Ben's blood disease, and promised to tell no one about it. He is not a main character.
  • Glover: One of the football players on Ben and Cody Wolf's team
  • Dolven: One of the football players on Ben and Cody Wolf's team
  • sooner: a football player on Ben and Cody's team. He is very aggressive and likes to push around many of the younger players. His father was on the football team when he was in school, and pushes Sooner a lot. In the middle of the book, his dad breaks his shoulder and he is out for some important games
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  • “"Love turns to hatred at the fringes of any belief system."”
  • “Planet Earth is a tough town.”
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  • “Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you’re in it and your life is better because I’m in it. The intensity of the love is weighed by how much better.”
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  • You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You’ll connect or you won’t, but you did what you could.
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  • You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.
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  • It’s about influence, about what people do in your name after you’re gone.”
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  • “There’s only one thing that’s universal.” “What’s that?” “The truth.”
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  • God isn’t a guy. God isn’t a girl. God is a force. You have all these people trying to figure out whether to believe in God or the big bang. Well, God is the big bang. God is the ultimate scientist. If God relegated his thinking to human cognition, it would never get anything done. I mean, look how slow you think, and you’re probably the smartest kid in your class. Just know that everything started as one, everything still is one, and it will end up as one.”
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  • ‘Live every day like you’re going to live forever and every day like it’s going to be your last’
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  • the truth doesn’t need to be known, or believed, to be true.”
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  • “Like I said before,” Rudy says, “it’s all about differences. Something about humans really doesn’t like them, when they are the very thing we should embrace. If someone’s different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that’s God telling you to take a closer look. If you’re scared or mad, that’s about you, not about the person who scares or angers you.”
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  • A team is a single thing, just like each of us is our arms and legs and brains and spirits. When one component isn’t working, we’re not at full speed.
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First Sentence edit see section history

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.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This book is in Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Nominees 2011. (community list)
This book is in 2010-2011 Iowa High School Battle of the Books. (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Chris Crutcher (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Greenwillow
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0060850892
Page Count: 316

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  • Library of Congress: PZ7.C89 De 2007
  • Dewey: F Crutcher

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

The themes in this book are very mature and there is often foul language.

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