Monday, February 9, 2009

Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson, Read by Mike Chamberlain


Anderson won the lifetime Margaret Edwards award so I wanted to make sure I read everything by her to see why she won! Twisted is a great book and not what I was expecting at all. First of all, the book is written from a boy's point-of-view, Tyler. Tyler is a nerdy boy who decides to change his reputation by spray painting his school. The act works. Some. He has to do community service for his actions, working for the school janitors in the summer, as well as for a local landscaping business. When Tyler comes back to school, he's cut and even the popular girls are noticing. Bethany, the girl of his dreams, lets him into her life, even if it means putting up with her evil, popular older brother. But Tyler's life is twisted and his family is dysfunctional. Everything drives Tyler to a breaking point--run away? suicide? shut up and put up? Which will it be?

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