What would you do if you only had one year to live?  Would you drop the track team and go out for football?  Ask out that gorgeous but unattainable girl?  Create a stir in your formerly-tame civics class?  Challenge your community to take a hard look at current racial prejudices?  High school student Ben Wolf does all this and more in response to being diagnosed with a terminal illness at the start of his senior year.  Does he make the pass or go down for the count?  Can he save the world and himself?  Chris Crutcher has written an engaging novel with current issues and a protagonist with traits you would look for in a best friend.