Walton, K. M

Sixteen-year-old Victor Konig is tormented at school by bully Bull Mastrick and ridiculed at home by his parents, but when he attempts suicide by taking a bottle of his mom's sleeping pills, Victor is dismayed when he wakes up in a psychiatric hospital and discovers Bull is his roommate.

An anthology of stories and personal essays exploring how music inspires creativity and can change one's life, written by... young adult authors and contemporary musicians.

When their mother dies, two very different brothers become even more distant, but when their father's alcoholism sends him into liver failure, the two boys must come face-to-face with their demons--and each other--if they are going to survive an uncertain future.

Deeply depressed after her father cheated on and divorced her mother, seventeen-year-old Adele has gained over seventy pounds and is being bullied and abused at school--to the point of being raped and accused of being the aggressor.

When Bull Mastrick and Victor Konig wind up in the same psychiatric ward at age sixteen, each recalls and relates in group therapy the bullying relationship they have had since kindergarten, but also facts about themselves and their families that reveal they have much in common.