![]() Making things worse, he has begun a romantic relationship with his former teacher. He fares no better with his parents, having stolen money from them time and time again. Constantly truant, Garrett makes it to school only a couple of times a week. The novel begins by contextualizing Garrett’s life and relationship with his family. ![]() Based on real accounts of life at boot camps in the United States that function as prisons rather than centers for rehabilitation or enrichment, the novel illuminates many of the system’s moral ills using the fictional account of a boy who suffers through its systematic but legal abuse. Boot Camp (2007), a young adult fiction novel by Todd Strasser, follows `Garrett, who endures emotional and physical abuse when his parents send him to a boot camp to correct his erratic behavior at home and school. ![]()
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