Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 15., Hütteldorfer Str. 81a	Standorte: JF.E DR.J Chbo / Mother Tongue Library	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

The story takes place in a suburb of Pittsburgh during the 1991–1992 school year, when Charlie is a high school freshman. The story explores topics such as introversion, teenage sexuality, abuse, and the awkward times of adolescence. The book also touches strongly on drug use and Charlie's experiences with this.

Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective ... but there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. Since its publication, Stephen Chbosky's haunting debut novel has received critical acclaim, provoked discussion and debate, grown into a cult phenomenon with over three million copies in print, spent over one year at #1 on the "New York Times "bestseller list, and inspired a major motion picture. "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.

Review: A novel of surviving adolescence in a US high school, presented as a series of letters written by the protagonist, Charlie, to an anonymous recipient. Charlie does not entirely fit in but nor is he a total outsider. Sitting on the fringes he undergoes the standard teenage rites of passage; suicide, sexuality, first love, first kiss, first joint. The author does achieve a believable 15-year-old voice but this is just a nice kid with a few problems; as a subject, Generation X is desperately boring. This is a universe away from the psychotic intensity of Catcher in the Rye - read Salinger's classic instead for a better look at problem adolescence. (Kirkus UK)