The only place I truly loved in my high school was the library with its carrel and its insistence on silence and the standing invitation to slip behind the desk and into the librarian's office and just chill out.

Also, Different Season rocks pretty hard. I am a writer because I was once a teen completely blown away by the first paragraph of The Body:

"The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them--words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure you enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear."