Liar

Now, at 14, Alex has a chance-maybe his last chance-to make a fresh start at his grandparents' farm.Robert Cormier had this to say about this ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant YA Readers: "There are no easy answers in Winifred Morris's highly readable novel Liar, which tells the truth about young Alex Shafer, troubled and in trouble-with the law, his school, his family. Hemmed in by the lies he is told and the lies he tells himself, Alex often does the wrong, heart-wrenching thing. But you'll find yourself cheering him on as the author captures all the desperations and desires of being young and hurting."