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Neal Shusterman (born November 12, 1962) is an American writer of young adult fiction. He won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his book Challenger Deep and his novel, Scythe , was a 2017 Michael L. Printz Honor book.
Unwind is a dystopian novel by Neal Shusterman.It takes place in the United States in the near future. After the Second Civil War ("The Heartland War") was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be "unwound" — taken to "harvest camps" and dissected into their body parts for later use.
Everwild continues the stories of Allie and Nick as they pursue separate goals. Allie sets off with Mikey, who was once the terrifying monster, McGill, in the book Everlost, to find her parents in hopes that she might put her spirit to rest; meanwhile, Nick finds himself in a race against time to save the Afterlights from endless entrapment in Everlost by the Sky Witch, Mary Hightower.
Characters [ edit ] Allie Johnson "Allie the Outcast" : Allie is a 14-year-old girl who ends up in Everlost after the car she is riding in, crashes head-on on a highway with the packed black Mercedes that Nick was in. Allie is brave and "goal" orientated though not a planner.
Challenger Deep is a 2015 young adult novel by Neal Shusterman about a teenager's onset of schizophrenia.The story was based on his own son. [1] It won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature [2] and was placed on "Best of the Year" lists by Publishers Weekly, the New York Public Library, and the American Library Association.
EXCLUSIVE: Disney + has acquired the National Book Award-winning Neal Shusterman novel Challenger Deep. The streaming division of Disney has set Toy Story 4 scribe Will McCormack to write the script.
Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie and Marco, five teenagers who know each other only tangentially (Jake and Rachel are cousins, Marco and Cassie are their respective best friends, and Jake once rescued Tobias from bullies), chase after Jake's dog Homer into an abandoned construction site and wind up encountering an alien named Elfangor, an Andalite warrior prince who offers them the power to morph ...
The Schwa Was Here is a young adult novel by Neal Shusterman, published by Dutton Penguin in 2004. It is about an eighth-grader's friendship with another student named Calvin Schwa, who goes almost completely unnoticed by the people around him.