Missing the Piano — Adam Rapp

Just last week, Michael Tegoff was a normal fifteen-year-old guy.

He was looking forward to the new school year and planning to try out for the basketball team. Then his father and stepmother dumped him at St. Matthew's Military Academy.

St. Matthew's calls itself a place "where boys become men," but mike doesn't want to be the kind of man St Mathew's wants to make him. The cadets are bullies, the rules make no sense, and Mike's only recourse is to just hang on tight and try not to forget there's a real world out past the school walls...