A school board in Wisconsin angered parents after refusing to ban the book, while The Glen Ellyn District 41 school board in suburban Chicago voted unanimously to reinstate the novel after it was removed from eighth-grade classrooms at Hadley Junior High School due to a parent’s objection to its sexual content. The book tackles some of the difficult issues most adolescents face including sexuality, drug use, rape (insinuated), and mental health.ĭespite the book’s relatability, even to teenagers today, The Perks of Being a Wallflower has appeared on appeared six times on the American Library Association’s list of 10 most-frequently-challenged books for its content, including some of the themes listed above. It took Chbosky five years to write and publish The Perks of Being a Wallflower which is based on aspects of his own teenage memories as well as fictional scenarios. The Perks of Being a Wallflower ( Amazon UK/ Hive Books/ Abe Books)
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