Tuesday, July 29, 2008

TWISTED by Laurie Halse Anderson

Tyler has spent his summer vacation doing community service, his punishment for committing what he calls “the foul deed,” an act of school vandalism the previous year. A bit of a nobody at school, the one bright spot for Tyler is the beautiful Bethany Milbury, and he is shocked when she seems to be taking an interest in him. However, when some shocking photographs of Bethany are posted online, Tyler is blamed because of his previous history. Suddenly Tyler is an outcast again, and it is up to him to pull his life together and prove his innocence.

Wow! I didn't know what was coming next in this page turner. At the opening of the novel, Tyler is dealing with a callous, bullying, social climbing father and a mother who hasn't quite figured out how to deal with her obnoxious husband. There are times in the novel when the reader will question Tyler's reliability as a narrator, as he begins to question whether he really is guilty of all the crimes people blame on him.

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