I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest
A debut young adult rom-com about an African American ballerina who finds love on the road to an audition.
When Chloe Pierce’s mother forbids her from applying for a spot at her dream dance conservatory, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles to the closest audition. But Chloe hits her first speed bump when her annoying neighbor Eli insists on hitchhiking, threatening to tell Chloe’s mother if she leaves him and his stinky dog, Geezer, behind. So Chloe is chasing her ballet dreams down the east coast, with two unwanted (but kinda cute) passengers in her car, butterflies in her stomach, and a really dope playlist on repeat.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
American writer Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel On the Road is based on his and his friends’ travels across the United States. It is regarded as a seminal work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture movements, with its protagonists navigating life amid jazz, poetry, and drug use.
Paper Towns by John Green
John Green’s novel Paper Towns was published on October 16, 2008, by Dutton Books. The novel follows the protagonist, Quentin “Q” Jacobsen, as he grows up and searches for his neighbor and childhood crush, Margo Roth Spiegelman.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer wrote Into the Wild, a nonfiction book, in 1996. It is an expansion of Krakauer’s 9,000-word article on Chris McCandless, “Death of an Innocent,” which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside.
This is not an easy story to read but Jon Krakauer writes well about the heart of the wilderness, its terrible beauty and its relentless harshness.
