Title: Dirty liar
Description: No longer able to tolerate living with his alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend, high schooler Benji, nicknamed Dogboy, has moved in with his emotionally distant father, stepmother, and stepsister, and strives to be invisible at home and at school until a series of events forces him to express himself.
Subjects: Emotional problems, Family problems, Fiction, Interpersonal relations, High schools, Schools, Self-esteem, Children's fiction, Stepparents, fiction, Oregon, fiction