Bottled Up, Paperback

Pip s desperate to escape his life he s been skipping classes, drinking, getting high. Anything and everything to avoid his smug teachers, his sweet but needy little brother, his difficult home life. Now he s been busted by Principal Giraldi and given an ultimatum: either he shows up for all his classes and sees a counselor after school, or he s expelled. Pip s freaked out; not because he might get kicked out of school, but by the thought that Giraldi might call his father. Because Pip will do anything to avoid his father."