Bottled Up - by Jaye Murray (Paperback)

About the Book

In this ALA Best Book for Young Adults, 16-year-old Pip is getting high to avoid thinking about his family life. Now Pip is being forced to think. Will he follow his father's destructive path, or will he invent his own future--one that won't include addiction and cruelty?

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

Alternately cocky, funny and maudlin, [this novel] gets its appeal from PipÆs unnervingly convincing teenage voice. (The Washington Post)

About the Author

First-time novelist Jaye Murray is a social worker who lives in New Rochelle, New York.