Wednesday, July 30, 2008

2008 Best Books for Young Adults (5)


Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

When the unpopular geek turns into the popular senior at school you know that there is trouble to come. Tyler was a geek that got in trouble his junior year of high school for spray painting graffiti at school. For that he was given manual labor over the summer and begins his senior year with a new muscular body that brings trouble for him even though he is unaware of it at the beginning. Tyler finds himself in very unfamiliar territory with the popular girl in school and sister of the bully very much interested in him, his father’s anger with him, school administration and staff looking at his every move and a particular party. Tyler is unable to handle all of the situations at once that he feels suicide is his only way out. This book will deal with issues that some of the students in high school deal with everyday and in the end Tyler realizes that he is not the problem.

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