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This book by Winifred Morris is an heart wrenching story of a young boy, Alex Shafer, and his troubled life and how he is always in trouble. Alex is in trouble wit the law, his school, and his family. He is caught up in the lies he is told and the lies he tells himself, and he always seems to the the wrong thing. Despite his negative attributes, I found myself cheering him on as Morris captures all the desperation and desires of being young and hurting. This book would be an excellent recommendation to troubled children who need help coping with their situation. This book is for a more advanced reader of about 4th-6th grade. I would recommend this book because of the diversity it would bring to a classroom, because everyone should have a book that can relate every kind of child. ( )

In the book "Liar", a 15-year-old boy named Alex is sent to live with his grandparents in Rimrock, Oregon. He was put there for constently being in trouble with the law, school, and other people around him. When he arives, he makes friends with Mickey and Barry (and being acationaly bullied by Wytt). Life seems prettey good for him while he does barn chores and eats grandmas cooking until something tragic happens. When Alxes started a campfire in the woods and didn't put it out right, a forest fire starts and is in hot water with alot of people. As soon as things started to get better, he's blamed for stealing a phone and a motorcycle. To prevent from getting in more trouble, lives out in an abandond house for shelter. But when a storm hits, he fights for life as he tries to get back home. When he's rescude by his devorsed dad and nursed back to health he is taken to juvinial detention. When he gets out, his friends forgive him and life seems to go back to normal again(hopefuly for a while).

For me, this is a tough book to read. In these type of books, you half to pay attention to every little detail or you woun't understand the next page. I think the reason why Alex lies alot is he got it from his mom. She always told lies and sounded like it was the truth because she was so good at it. Mickey is very forgiving even when Alex acted dangerous(witch was very brave of he). Barry did alot of wrong and suprizing things like stealing Alex's dad's motorcycle.