Boot Camp by Todd Strasser

Boot camp. One place any kid never wants to go, but a few unlucky kids with major problems and rich parents get sent to a horrible place without there knowledge. Garrett, is sent to this place called lake harmony. He is taken in the middle of the night, hand cuffed, and stuck in a car. When he arrives at lake harmony he discovers that his parents have sent him here. Garrett soon discovers how this place works the staff can only do so much to beat you down but they have kids that will gladly do it for them.  There are diffrent levels you must get to before you can graduate this boot camp and your completely brainwashed when you get out. Garretts very smart and he is trying to beat the system when he hears of a plan to escape from his friend Pauly. They make a mad dash when the plan was finally completed and make it out, but in the end two people get away one gets caught and hes in for the worst punishment of  his life. This book was a very good read full of action I kept picking it back up always wanting to know what was comeing next.

Night by Eli Wiesel

Night. A very depressing novel about a man and his strugles in the holocost and haveing to watch his whole family die. During there ordeal in the prision camps Eli tried to stay connected with his family especialy his mother. Keeping there family close was something that helped Eli keep going. Father son bonds were a big deal after seeing so many familes split up and sent to many parts of the concentration camps and they never seen one another again. These bonds kept them strong. Some of the familes were tore apart by children willingly seperateing there families and sending there fathers to death. Some of the sons would even beat there fathers. He witnessed one incident where one man beat his father to death.