Looking for Alaska
Author(s): John Green
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
An ALA Quick Pick
A Los Angeles Times 2005 Book Prize Finalist
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
A 2005 Booklist Editor's Choice
A 2005 School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
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.
Product Information
Readers will only hope that this is not the last word from this promising new author. (Publishers Weekly)
General Fields
- :
- : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- : Harper Element
- : 0.259
- : 01 November 2006
- : 208mm X 143mm X 19mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : John Green
- : Paperback / softback
- : English
- : 221