While traveling on vacation I downloaded Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick on my Kindle Touch.  It was an incredible...sad, harsh and real story about a young boy caught right in the middle of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.  This powerful story of the will to live and what might have to be done, to make that a reality.  What would you do?  Hopefully, none of us will ever have to find that out!  Someone asked me why this book about this subject was written for teens.  My response was, "because kids need to know about the awful, real things that happen, so that maybe we can try to prevent them from happening again.  Being aware and knowing is part of that.