The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

This book is about a kid named Charlie who is a freshman and he is a loner until he makes friends with a bunch of seniors. He learns life lessons. He also likes to read old books that his teacher gives to him and write essays about them.
I really liked it. The story was told in a diary format, which I don't usually like very much, but in this case it worked really well because the main character had a distinctive voice, which really added to his character. His personality seemed really developed, but some of the other's didn't. There were a lot of characters that had almost no dialogue and were just mentioned in passing, so it was a little hard to keep track of them. The story, rather than being a plot that the entire book was based around, was more of just an account of the events of a school year, and while there was a problem and it was resolved by the end, the book's structure was unusual. I really liked this book.  It has some mature content, but it would be fine for anyone in our class. I would recommend it.