the silent room

The Silent Room

By Walter Sorrells

The book takes places in Virginia with a boy named Oswald sometimes people call him “OZ”. His father just died and now he lives with his mother. His mother then finds a new man and they start dating for a while, then a few months later they get married.

Oz hates his new dad. His dad works at his school he is a wrestling coach so, he makes Oz do wrestling. Oz hates it and his step father beats him up. His step dad frames him for drugs and has bad DVDs. He then gets sends to a school for boys all the way in Florida Georgia. Near the boys home there is a big swamp and in that big swamp he can never get off but then he starts to make friends at his new home. Him and his friends have a plan to get off the island. They have found an air boat and every night they build on it. One of those nights they decide to move the air boat. When they move it they find a human skeleton.

Then things get worse as they find out that the owners of the school stealing money from the kids by taking their trust fund and forcing them to sign papers they have been putting them in this room called the silent room. They get your money by strapping you down in a chair and put a bag over your head and leave you there.

One day he has to go and clean the owner’s house and he meets their daughter. They like each other as she gives him a key that unlocks every door to the school. He’s think there are going the get out of the school but the girl has set him up and he finds out that his dad has set up a trust fund for him and it is worth over two million dollars. So then he starts to work harder and faster on the boat with the time he has they started up but they run in some troubles. What problems do they have and will they ever get off the island?