Charlie is a 15 year old , who is starting his first year of high school in freshman. He writes letters to an anonymous person, explaining his experiences as they happen. In these letters we learn about his family and friends. Charlie writes about Michael, his friend who has committed suicide. He describes how much he misses him, and also he writes about him and Susan who used to be his best friends. When he describes his family, he said that it is consist of himself, his mom, his father, his brother and his sister. He talks about the Holidays they had spend together. Later, he becomes friend with some senior guys who changed his life. Before he meet them, Charlie was not really popular, but later he started to hang out a lot with them, and he started making thing he did not do before, like smoking. One of the major themes in this book is the bad use of drugs and alcohol because for them, that is a way to scape of all problems. I found this book really interesting because is not like the other books narrating a story, it`s about a diary. I had only read one book like this, that is called "Ask Alicia" it is also about a girl let herself got influenced by friends and became drogadict. This teach us that drugs and alcohol are bad and they prove us with stories, so it is really interesting to read about this stuff to learn ab