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Chbosky, Stephen

The perks of being a wallflower / Stephen Chbosky - 213 pages ; 18 cm

"MTV books." "A major motion picture-- in theaters September 2012!"--Cover

This coming of age novel is told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent, and reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. He tells the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory in a world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends, and sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show

ISBN: 9781451696196 (pbk.) 1451696191 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
High school students--Social conditions--Fiction
Teenagers--Fiction
Letters--Fiction
High school students--Fiction
Adolescence--Fiction

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Epistolary fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3553.H3469 / P47 2012b

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54