Strasser is alos a speaker at schools and conferences when he is not busy writing All together, he has published more than 100 books. In 1993 he wrote Help! I'm Trapped in My Teacher's Body and since then has written 16 more Help! I'm Trapped. N 1990, Strasser moved to Westchester County, N.Y., where during the next few years, he wrote various movie novelizations, including Home Alone, Free Willy, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Jumanji. For the next 12 years, Todd sold more fortune cookies than books. In 1978, he sold his first novel, Angel Dust Blues. Upon his return to the United States, Strasser enrolled at Beloit College where he studied literature and writing.Īfter graduating, Strasser worked at the Middletown Times Herald-Record newspaper in Middletown, New York, and later at Compton Advertising in New York City. While he was in Europe, Strasser wrote songs and poems in letters to his friends. He lived on a commune, and then in Europe, where he was a street musician. Strasser went to college at New York University for a few years, before dropping out. Willets Elementary school and then the Wheatley School for junior high and high school. While still a child, Strasser and his parents moved to Roslyn Heights, New York on Long Island. In this tense, riveting novel, award-winning YA author Todd Strasser reveals what really goes on in highly secretive - and notoriously dangerous - boot camps, a stealth prison system where any teenager under the age of eighteen can be imprisoned at his parents' whim. It's incredibly risky - if he's caught, the consequences will be unthinkable - but it may be his only way out. Then he hears whispers of an escape plot.

Beaten, humiliated, and stripped of his pride, Garrett's spirit is slowly ebbing away. He won't be allowed to leave until he's admitted his 'mistakes' and conformed to Harmony Lake's standards of behavior. Subjected to brutal physical and psychological abuse, he tries to fight back, but the battle is futile. Maybe some kids deserve to be sent there, but Garrett knows he doesn't.

In the middle of the night Garrett is taken from his home to Harmony Lake, a boot camp for troubled teens.

After ignoring several warnings to stop dating his teacher, Garrett is sent to Lake Harmony, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents.

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