The Catcher in the Rye

Summary: When Holden Caulfield is set to get kicked out of his private school at the end of the semester, he leaves a few days early to wander around New York City. He spends his days thinking and cussing to himself. His scattered, teenage-boy thought patterns reveal that this lost young man is something of an accidental lay philosopher with some deep thoughts and surprising past events on which to reflect.