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Please join us for an ALAN Online BookChat to dis­cuss TWISTED with the author, Lau­rie Halse Ander­son .

Date: Wednes­day, 7/25/07
Time: 9:00 PM East­ern
URL: http://alan-ya.org/bookchat/flashchat.php

Here’s more about TWISTED:

High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background—average stu­dent, aver­age looks, aver­age dys­func­tional fam­ily. But since he got busted for doing graf­fiti on the school, and spent the sum­mer doing out­door work to pay for it, he stands out like you wouldn’t believe. His new physique attracts the atten­tion of queen bee Bethany Mil­bury, who just so hap­pens to be his father’s boss’s daugh­ter, the sis­ter of his biggest enemy—and Tyler’s secret crush. And that sets off a string of events and changes that have Tyler ques­tion­ing his place in the school, in his fam­ily, and in the world. In Twisted, the acclaimed Lau­rie Halse Ander­son tack­les a very con­tro­ver­sial sub­ject: what it means to be a man today. Fans and new read­ers alike will be cap­tured by Tyler’s pitch­per­fect, funny voice, the sur­pris­ing nar­ra­tive arc, and the thought­ful moral dilem­mas that are at the heart of all of the author’s award-winning, widely read work.