| While in the kitchen, Charlie tells Sam that his best friend Michael shot himself last May | I also give it huge credit for addressing these topics, especially those so increasingly faced by teenagers today |
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| A month later, my sister met another boy and started playing happy records again | They help all of us discover who we are, what we believe, and what we hope our life can be |
Absolutely loved this book, it's one that stays with you.
| It was in the spring of the previous school year that his best friend committed suicide and now that his class has gone through a summer of change, the boy finds that he has drifted away from old friends | He also edited Pieces, a collection of short stories for Pocket Books |
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| I didn't do anything to him | He is a very good football player and likes his car |
Participation in life means facing hard situations and working through them, rather than avoiding the issues or relying on emotional crutches to limp by.
19| Then, he got mad and started hitting me, and I just did the things my brother taught me to do | First dates, family drama, and new friends |
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| But WHO is Charlie supposed to be writing to? There is chance he was using an alias so it wasn't Charlie at all, just another member of the group of friends? This psychological damage explains his flashbacks and phases throughout the book | It is not until the end of the novel, when Charlie is about to have sex with Sam, that Charlie realizes that Aunt Helen had sexually abused him |
The cover has a quote from USA Today describing it as a "coming of age novel.
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