The Perks of being a Wallflower by: Stephen Chbosky

the perks of being a wallflower as most of you know is a coming of age story about a boy named charlie. The entire book is the letter's charlie is writing to a friend whose name you never know. Charlie mentions in the beginning of the book that last year in his last year of middle school his only friend Michael died. When Charlie goes off to high school for the first time he meets two friends that seem somewhat troublesome. There names are Sam and Patrick. Sam and Patrick are both seniors and don't have many friends themselves. The friend that they do have are much like them. Sam and Patrick smoke and that's when they met charlie. One night they take Charlie to a party and a man there gave them brownies containing drugs, but Charlie didn't know that and ate many of them and got "wasted". Charlie didn't know what to do and had a small melt down but the next day he was fine. Charlie also likes Sam because she is very pretty but Sam told him not to think about her that way because she didn't want him wasting his time liking her when he could go out with someone else. Another thing about  charlie is when he was very young his aunt Helen died. this was hard for him because she was the only one who ever told him that h was special, through out his entire family he just seems average to everyone else. Through out the book Charlie runs into tough decisions, drugs, drinking, and difficult friendships. this book as many people say is a Breakfast Club for the new millenium and could be the next Rocky Horror Picture Show. I would defiantly recommend this book for you and all your friends. I would probably give this book a 5 out of 5 stars.