Just One Day, by Gayle FormanRead about the other entries on the list.
One of the best parts of traveling is stepping outside the comfort zone of the home you know, and seeing how that colors not only your experiences but your actions and decisions. Not that running off to a foreign country with a strange boy is a universally wise idea, but for Allyson, spontaneously joining Willem on a train to Paris truly is the beginning of the rest of her life. Forman is a master of beautiful writing on the art of self-discovery, and this stands up there with her best.
Writers Read: Gayle Forman (April 2011).
--Marshal Zeringue