The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Now a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting modern classic.

The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant "wallflower" Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.

A years-long #1 New York Times bestseller, an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and Best Book for Reluctant Readers, and with millions of copies in print, this novel for teen readers (or "wallflowers" of more-advanced age) will make you laugh, cry, and perhaps feel nostalgic for those moments when you, too, tiptoed onto the dance floor of life.

• ISBN10: 1451696191
• ISBN13: 9781451696196
• Publish Date: 14 August 2012 (first published 1 February 1999)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: MTV Books
• Edition: Media Tie-In ed.
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 224
• Language: English

Reviews

[mary]

Man. I read this book awhile ago, when I was still an teenager and at the time it seemed that every teenager on the planet was doing more drugs and having more sex than me. It would seem. At times I felt like Chbosky, an older man, was trying TOO hard to speak through the mouth of a teen boy. However, it was memorable, and I would recommend it. There are definitely good parts. No 'Catcher in the Rye' though. It will be interesting to see how this book adapts to the big screen.