The whole storyline for this book revolved around one child, one abused child with a drunken mess of a father and a mother who can't stand up to her husband. The boy, Gary Sanderson, decides to stand up for her by taking him out permanently. He is then is quickly carted off to Radcliffe, a juvenile delinquent facility for boys. He had been there since he was twelve years old, now at age sixteen, he has a choice: to start over with foster parent, or to wait another two years in that horrid place and leave on his own.
This book may not seem like something you would pick up at the library and read. But you definitely should. Unto the Breach by Sidney Gale offers a quickly interesting story of three young kids, fighting to stay hopeful when, on their sturdy boat The Shark, something goes terribly wrong. Will the boys make it back in time before their beloved teacher Mr. Benson goes to sleep with the fishes? In this book, the story picks you up off your feet and into the lifes of these three kids. Unto the Breach by Sidney Gale is definitely a story any sailor or non-sailor, for that matter, will love.
