The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky and Stephen Chbosky
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a story about what it’s like to travel that strange course through the uncharted territory of high school. The world of first dates, family dramas, and new friends. Of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Of 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
2012, Simon & Schuster
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012-11, MTV Books/Gallery Books
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2012, Simon and Schuster
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2012-08, MTV Books/Gallery Books
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2002, MTV Books/Pocket Books
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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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