This book starts off with 15 year old Charlie writing in what I believe is his diary. He is still coping from a recent suicide from his friend Michael. He explains how he doesn't want to go to high school because he overall hates school and he is very shy. After the death of his friend Michael, the school councilor had to talk to Charlie and all the people that were friends with Michael to see how they were doing and coping with the death of their friend. Charlie explains how he felt like he made the teachers and the councilor nervous because he didn't really talk and cried a lot. He started noticing how his grade got better and how the teachers were being more nice to him in which bothers Charlie because he knows that he didn't get smarter and the teachers aren't really that nice to him so he feels like they are just trying to make things easier for him. After his first journal entry/letter his says that he hates High school but he noticed this one girl named Susan who used to go to middle school with him and that she was very fun to be around and easy to talk to, but over the summer he took her braces off, got a little taller and got prettier. Charlie explains how she changed. For example he says that she acts dumb in the hall ways, and even more around boys. He explains he doesn't see her as happy as she used to be in middle school.
A connection that I though of right away that made me think about this book was the topical change that everyone goes through in high school. The beginning of this book reminded me a lot of how in movies when two people were best friends, then through high school they don't talk anymore and how the kids who are shy and lonely are often bullied. This lead me to a prediction that Charlie was either going to change like this girl Susan, or gets bullied. This connection came to me when Charlie was explaining how this girl Susan changed from how she used to be in Middle school and how she is now in High School.
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