bootcamp

Boot Camp by Todd Strasser ISBN: 978-1-4169-0848-7 ©2007 232 pages

Good sections to read aloud: pp. 7-11 when Garrett first arrives at Harmony Lake and is “checked in”

Summary: Our main character, Garrett, is 15 years old when he is taken from his parents own (on their demand) and placed into a boot camp for troubled teens. Harmony Lake isn’t what Garrett’s parents thought it was when they signed him up for this, but there is no way Garrett can communicate that to his parents without being beaten and tormented. Garrett has disobeyed his parents so often, that this was their last chance of ‘reforming’ him. Well...it works and it doesn’t. Garrett holds fast to his beliefs and values which get him in trouble, but he also ‘plays the game’ when its needed to survive. Will Garrett ‘graduate’ from this program or be stuck there until he is a legal adult (age 18)?

YA fiction-- Teen issue; juvenile delinquency; interpersonal relations; family problems

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