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"I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day...or wondering who did the heart breaking and wondering why."
Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his way through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends; the world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. But Charlie can't stay on the sideline forever. Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.
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Young adult fiction, Bildungsroman, Epistolary fiction, Bildungsromans, Diary novels, Fiction, Juvenile works, Young adult works, Juvenile fiction, high school students, social conditions, teenagers, letters, diary fiction, adolescence, coming of age, fiction classics, literary fiction, introversion, sexuality, drug use, mental health, coming-of-age, music, infinite, abuse, repression, friendship, Loss (Psychology), Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Diaries, fiction, Schools, fiction, Emotions, fiction, Children's fiction, Friendship, fiction, American fiction, Translations into Vietnamese, nyt:paperback-books=2012-06-24, New York Times bestseller, Letters, fiction, Youth, fiction, collectionID:TexChallenge2021, collectionID:EanesChallenge, collectionID:ConroeChallenge, Adolescents, Romans, nouvelles, Élèves du secondaire, Conditions sociales, Lettres (Genre littéraire), Roman pour jeunes adultes, collectionID:bannedbooks, Epistolary novels, High school students--social conditions, High school students--social conditions--fiction, High school students--social conditions--juvenile fiction, Teenagers--juvenile fiction, Letters--juvenile fiction, High school students--juvenile fiction, Adolescence--juvenile fiction, Ps3553.h3469 p47 1999, 813/.54People
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted observing teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pittsburgh suburb. The novel details Charlie's unconventional style of thinking as he navigates between the worlds of adolescence and adulthood, and attempts to deal with poignant questions spurred by his interactions with both his friends and family.
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