Over vacation, I finished Boot Camp by Todd Strasser and Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick (same author as Sold). Both books are wonderful options for the teen-aged boy.
Boot Camp is much like the last book by the same author. Todd Strasser depicts like inside a boot camp (not army camp but camp like "if you don't behave, I will send you away where you'll learn how to behave" camp). Garrett, the main character, struggles to figure out how to live when he knows good and well that he's done nothing to really deserve being sent to the camp. He struggles with others and with himself and it's a real "coming of age" story. I even gave this book to someone while on vacation and she loved it too.
Purple Heart is an Iraq war story. Matt is injured and throughout the whole book he tries to figure out what happened before the explosion. I can't imagine any boy not liking this book.
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