Deadline (Carton of 28 Hardcover Books)

What if you only had one year to live . . . and you knew it?

At the beginning of his senior year, during a routine preseason physical for the cross-country team, Ben Wolf discovers that he has an aggressive form of leukemia. Once he gets past the initial shock, Ben decides to tell no one; he wants his last year to be as “normal” as possible. Somewhere deep inside, Ben has always known that he would never escape high school and Trout, Idaho, population 943. This twist of fate seems not exactly fair, but it feels right.

Only, not telling the truth is the same as lying. And how do you lie to your friends, and to your parents, and to your brother Cody, and to the gorgeous Dallas Suzuki (who Ben, now that he has nothing to lose, finally asks on a date)? The short answer? You don’t. But it takes Ben almost a year to figure out that truth. And what a year it is.