Fourteen-year-old Joseph tries to avoid trouble and keep in touch with his father, who is serving in Iraq, as he and his alcoholic, drug-addicted mother move from one homeless shelter to another.
An exploration of the issues surrounding teen alcohol use that gives teens the factual knowledge they need and challenges then to reconsider how they think about alcohol.
Discusses the phenomenon of compulsive dependence on such pleasure-giving substances as drugs, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, and food, as well as causes of, treatments for, and societal attitudes toward such addictions.
Lissa, a seventeen-year-old art student living on her own in Chicago, must raise her eleven-year-old sister when their alcoholic mother becomes incapable of caring for her.
