VERDICT: A fine choice for memoir collections.” This engaging narrative is informative and will speak to teens. The rest of the book is a description of the experiences he had on his way to successfully realizing that dream: he became a SEAL and even became an instructor for other SEALs in training. A chance encounter with a group of SEALs who visited the boat turned his life around and gave him a new goal. Braces were put on his knees in order to give them a chance to grow properly. By age 13, Webb was working on a dive boat. That came to an abrupt end when the boy was diagnosed with Osgood-Schlatter disease, which is caused by overtraining, resulting in a painful lump below the kneecap. His parents kept their often-rambunctious son out of trouble by encouraging him to get involved with athletics. A product of a dysfunctional family (his parents had a difficult marriage, and his father was physically abusive), Webb tells his life’s story. ‘A few weeks past my sixteenth birthday, my dad threw me off a boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.’ So begins a fast-paced autobiography of a young man who would eventually become a U.S.
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