Boot Camp by Todd Strasser

16 year-old Garrett is taken in the middle of the night by bounty hunters to a place he never knew existed: a teenage boot camp in the remote northern New York wilderness.  Harmony Lake is a camp that brainwashes teenagers by any means necessary-- physical beating, torture, starvation-- so that the teens eventually believe they are wrong to disobey their parents.  Teens live at the camp until they are completely rehabilitated, or until their 18th birthday-- or until they die from the torture, which has happened.  The parents pay as much as $4,000 a month to send their children there because they're fed up with the way their teenager is acting.  Garrett can't believe his parents would send him to a place like this.  The only thing he can see that he did wrong was steal some money after they cut off his allowance, and his parents are absolutely loaded.  That, and have an affair with his 24 year old teacher-- but he was in love, and knew that an 8 year difference wasn't a big deal to older people.  However-- Garrett is stuck in Boot Camp and has to find ways to endure the experience while trying to maintain what he feels is his essential good-nature.  The only chance of survival might just be escape.  Based on accounts of actual  teen boot camps, Todd Strasser's book is an engaging and eye-opening novel that will likely have students wondering how places like this can exist in modern America.