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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Funded Apr 22, 2016Words cannot even begin to express how much your donation means to me and the students in my classroom. I have always loved reading and that is something I want to instill in my students. Getting them to love to read is difficult but not if you find the right book. Perks of Being a Wallflower is the right book. This is a book the students cannot put down. They read more than the allotted reading assignment. They want to know more about Charlie. They are Charlie. I use this novel to get my students to understand who they are and where they are going. I use it and relate it to Catcher in the Rye as the two main characters are so similar. I love seeing even my troubled students loving this novel. They begin to open up as we have honest, open conversations about being teenagers. Perks of Being a Wallflower makes reading and learning memorable.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Matthews