Twyla;: A novel

by Pamela Walker

A fifteen-year-old's letters to the one person she really cares about reflect her increasing inability to cope with the situation surrounding her special learning problems.

125 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

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[Hannah Morrison · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book in many ways is both extremely good and extremely lacking. Yes, this book is about a girl who sent letters without response but it doesn't mean that the author couldn't have given their own personal commentary on the subject.

[Melanie]

Barely remember this one. I read it in Jr High.

This girl with learning disabilities or mild retardation types a bunch of letters and sends them to her crush (some popular guy who ignores her but isn't cruel to her). Anyway at the end she steals her parents (?) car and crashes it into a tree, dying in the impact. There's like two paragraphs from the target of the affection, a whole bunch of letters from this girl (Twyla Krotz) or something, and a news article about her demise. So it's basically a Dear Mr Henshaw-style epistolary.