Hard Love

I started a book called Hard Love By:Ellen Wittlinger  I thought the book would be different then what I'm up to. First I thought the main character would be about a girl but I guess I was wrong it's about a boy and his love for writing and how he thinks "hes immune to emotions". To me the kid is just the same as the other kids but solves his problems differently and shows no emotions towards the problem. He has a friend that he really don't care about a mom that's divorce and hes about to get a stepfather. The kid starts asking questions to the stepfather like he was getting a job interview. ( that was really strange but at the end of the interview I found out it was a piece that he was writing. But he wanted that to really happen, but it sounded like a movie script.)I think that the kid cares about his mom and who shes going to end up in her life hes just scared to show it.Thats how hes different, theres a lot of problems that hes going through but he dosen't  show his emotion towards the problem ? What kid does that usally they would be upset or sad but instead he just writes a script of how he wants to play out but dosen't show his true emotions. He reads an article called zines and there really strange he read one about a girl whos adopted and shares to people about her life in this article. I think that the kid is going to end up writing one of these articles and he ends up finding him self and starts to show his emotions.
P.S I have no clue what the boys name.