num_pages: 416
description: Sam McKennas never turned down a dare. And she's not going to start with the last one her brother gave her before he died.So Sam joins the first-ever class of girls at the prestigious Denmark Military Academy. Shes expecting push-ups and long runs rope climbing and mud-crawling. As a military brat she can handle an obstacle course just as well as the boys. She's even expecting the hostility she gets from some of the cadets who dont think girls belong there. What shes not expecting is her fiery attraction to her drill sergeant. But dating is strictly forbidden and Sam won't risk her future or the dare on something so petty... no matter how much she wants him.As Sam struggles to prove herself she discovers that some of the boys dont just want her gonethey will stop at nothing to drive her out. When their petty threats turn to brutal hazing bleeding into every corner of her life she realizes they are not acting alone. A decades-old secret society is alive and active and determined to force her out.At any cost.Now time's running short. Sam must decide who she can trust... and choosing the wrong person could have deadly consequences.
language: English
title: Rites of Passage
publisher: Harper Teen