. . . . "Young adult fiction" . . . . "Young adult works" . "The prince of denial" . "Fiction" . "Domestic fiction" . . . . "Juvenile works" . . . . "Casey, a seventh grader, refuses to play the key role in an intervention to confront his dad's alcoholism and drug abuse, but then he begins to break through to the reality that no one in his family has faced before." . . . .