Tyler may not gain hero status with his peers, but readers will respect his integrity, which outshines his mistakes. This dark comedy gives a chillingly accurate portrayal of the high-school social scene, in which morals, perceptions and conceptions of truth are continually being challenged. With justice seemingly beyond his reach, Tyler considers suicide and running away from home before settling for less drastic measures.

As a result, Tyler has to contend with the police, a verbally abusive father (who works for Bethany's dad), a principal who is still angry about the graffiti incident, and a slew of new enemies at school. He has always been a small guy who is teased mercilessly and hence he tries to stay under the radar. He considers himself an unpopular kid entering his senior year of high school who is constantly struggling with suicidal thoughts. Humorous, compelling first-person narrative traces how Tyler's newfound happiness as a gutsy tough-guy soon turns to agony he starts to wish that he could go back to being 'invisible.' Tyler is floating on Cloud Nine when he wins favor with rich, popular Bethany Milbury, but she drops him after he won't sleep with her, and then he gets the blame when compromising photos of her appear on the Internet. Twisted Summary Tyler is the narrator of Twisted. Unpopular senior Tyler Miller ('a zit on the butt of the student body') gains stature and notoriety the summer after he pulls off an impressive prank: 'spray-painting a couple thousand dollars worth of damage to the school.' But readers soon discover that the author has something more complex and original to offer than a fairy-tale rendition of transformation. ) contemporary novel appears to be a 'twisted' version of a Cinderella story.

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