Looking for Alaska
John Green

Another great book and events it covers are so true for teenagers (as I remember it anyway). A teenager goes to boarding school to escape his mundane life at his day school. What befalls him there is more than he expected - friendship, sex, practical jokes, love, tragedy and finally a way out of the labyrinth. The final essay was really powerful and moving and a great summation of the book. It also made me reflect on the lack of freedom that we adults have in our daily lives.