Wild Thing

“A harrowing, candidly written journey from drug-induced depths to heights of joy, as honest and revealing as any book I have ever read,” says Dr. Bernard Luskin, President of the Society for Media Psychology and Technology at the American Psychological Association. Others have called it a “must-read for every parent with a teenage daughter or son in public high school.”  Filled with shocking scenes of teenage drug abuse, yet tempered with outrageous humor and astonishing self-reflection, the teenage memoir “Wild Thing” by Alysia Jayne Isbouts is a brutal exposé of the dangers that our children are exposed to in America’s overcrowded public school system.

As the book opens, Alysia is a beautiful, fifteen year-old California blond, a popular cheerleader and an astonishing gymnast. Yet as he descends into an escalating spiral of drug abuse, truancy and deception, her parents resort to a desperate gambit: to have her incarcerated in a disciplinary school of delinquents, called Casa by the Sea in Ensenada, Mexico. Little do they know, however, that the school is under observation by the FBI and the Mexican Federales for suspected child abuse, and are planning a raid just weeks after Alysia’s arrival.

“Wild Thing” is an intense and deeply moving story that takes the reader on a transformative journey through the mind of a female teenager as she tries to cope with the temptations and dangers of the modern world.