num_pages: 256
description: 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 young adult 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.
language: English
title: Boot Camp
titlecomplete: Boot Camp
genres: Fiction, Abuse, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Survival, Adventure, School
ratings_count: 5670
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Iowa High School Book Award, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Gateway Readers Award
publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing