Carpe Diem by Autumn Cornwell
Sixteen-year-old Vasser Spore has her life planned out for the next 15 years, from graduating valedictorian - right through to winning the Pulitzer Prize. Her very scheduled, precisely planned life take a wild turn when her Grandma (who she's never met) sends her airline tickets to join her for the summer in South East Asia. Vassar doesn't have any intention of going, until she overhears a mysterious conversation between her parents and her grandmother. Before she knows it, she's rearranging her well planned summer and making up her AP English class by agreeing to write a novel during her travels in Malaysia, Cambodia and Laos.
The travel part of the book is really what grabbed me. Vassar finally has to give up some of her rigidness and learn to LIM (Live in the moment). Along the way she figures out the mystery between her parents and her grandmother, finds an unexpected boyfriend and decides she can live without having every moment of her life planned out - sometimes the unexpected is fun.
Although it wasn't quite as good as I wanted it to be, I still think this will be a great book for those needing an escape to a foreign country.
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