Being a leader, like growing into adulthood, is a process, and it can come with challenges. But the only thing that we can do is learn from it. What the twenty-one student writers at the Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies offer for us are thoughtful and compassionate meditations on their experiences as peer leaders. Their personal narratives range from achieving success in a negative environment to making the journey from childhood to adulthood to reflecting on how the act of leading changes leaders. Perhaps most importantly, these stories invite us to critically reflect on, reassess, and revise our initial perceptions, understandings, and assumptions about what it means to be both a teenager and a leader