Reading Level: 4.8 Interest Level: 9+
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. Also 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 #1 New York Times best seller for more than a year,
an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults (2000) and
Best Book for Reluctant Readers (2000), 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.