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Winner · Michael L. Printz Award 2006

Looking for Alaska

by John Green

2005 novel by John Green

Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .

After. Nothing is ever the same.

Synopsis from Open Library.

Language
English
Genre
young adult fiction
Pages
288
ISBN
9781484484708
Subjects
Fiction, Boarding schools, Death, Grief, Interpersonal relations, Traffic accidents, Young adult fiction, Schools

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