**Gina Musa's tender, thoughtful debut is about finding your strength in the most unlikely of places** Whitney Carmichael has always been the odd one out in her family of athletes. And when her best friend bops her with a tennis ball, it's the last straw. She's going to tackle her fears about work
Boot Camp
โ Scribed by Todd Strasser
- Book ID
- 114116691
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- EN-US
- Weight
- 509 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781442428881
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โฆ Synopsis
In the middle of the night Garrett is taken from his home to Harmony Lake, a boot camp for troubled teens. Maybe some kids deserve to be sent there, but Garrett knows he doesn't. Subjected to brutal physical and psychological abuse, he tries to fight back, but the battle is futile. He won't be allowed to leave until he's admitted his "mistakes" and conformed to Harmony Lake's standards of behavior. And there's no way to fake it. Beaten, humiliated, and stripped of his pride, Garrett's spirit is slowly ebbing away. Then he hears whispers of an escape plot. It's incredibly risky -- if he's caught, the consequences will be unthinkable -- but it may be his only way out.
In this tense, riveting novel, award-winning YA author Todd Strasser reveals what really goes on in highly secretive -- and notoriously dangerous -- boot camps, a stealth prison system where any teenager under the age of eighteen can be imprisoned at his parents' whim.
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