Wild Thing: A Teenage Journey to Hell and Back by Isbouts, Jean-Pierre

Wild Thing: A Teenage Journey to Hell and Back (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781492991250)

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Wild Thing: A Teenage Journey to Hell and Back by Isbouts, Jean-Pierre

Wild Thing: A Teenage Journey to Hell and Back

$24.95
Wild Thing: A Teenage Journey to Hell and Back by Isbouts, Jean-Pierre

Wild Thing: A Teenage Journey to Hell and Back

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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Fifteen-year-old varsity cheerleader Alysia Jayne, a beautiful California blonde with the lithe body of an Olympic gymnast, is in an escalating spiral of drug abuse, truancy and deception. One morning in 2003, she is roused from her bed by strangers, handcuffed, and rushed across the Mexican border. Here, she is incarcerated in a disciplinary school for delinquents, called Casa by the Sea, hidden behind whitewashed walls near the resort town of Ensenada. For the next six weeks, she undergoes a brutal treatment right out of "A Clockwork Orange", designed to crush the spirit and self-confidence of its young inmates. Growing rumors of abuse and violence at the Casa facility soon prompt a full-scale raid by the Mexican Federales and the FBI, an event that forces Alysia to acknowledge the still precarious fragility of her sense of self. She voluntarily submits to another severe treatment program at Ivy Ridge Academy in Upstate New York. Clinging to her tenuous relationship with other girls in the program (though forbidden to speak), Alysia gradually develops the courage to confront the roots of her destructive behavior, and win her way back into the loving arms of her family. Candid, humorous and shocking at times, "Wild Thing" is a remarkably mature memoir of a teenager lost in the temptations of America's public schools.

Author: Jean-Pierre Isbouts,Alysia Jayne Isbouts
ISBN-10: 1492991252
ISBN-13: 9781492991250
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2013
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d
By Jean-Pierre Isbouts
By Jean-Pierre Isbouts
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It has taken me six years to be able to speak about it, says Alysia Jayne Isbouts, now 24, who lives in Newbury Park, CA and works as an account representative for a major credit card company in Westlake Village, CA. "That's when I decided to write this book, because my experience is repeated, every day, on countless high school campuses across the United States. And I don't want anyone to go through the hell that I went through." Alysia was born in Wilmington, DE in 1988, just shortly before her family moved to Westlake Village, CA. She grew up surrounded by the sun-splashed hills of the Santa Monica Mountains, and attended Lindero Canyon Middle School before enrolling in Agoura High School. Accepted as a varsity cheerleader because of her superior gymnastic skills, even though she was a freshman, Alysia soon descended into an abyss of drug abuse and truancy. Following the horrifying experience of the "behavior modification" institutes at Casa by the Sea in Mexico and the Academy of Ivy Ridge in Upstate New York, she enrolled in Fenster High School in Tucson, AZ and graduated with honors. Moving forward with her education and career, Alysia hopes to graduate college with a major in Music Management and Marketing. To find out more about Alysia or request her appearance at your event, please visit her at www.AlysiaJayne.com.

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