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| Looking for Alaska | 
| Author: John Green
Publisher: Puffin
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 24347
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0142402516
EAN: 9780142402511
ASIN: 0142402516
Publication Date: December 28, 2006
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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 Editors 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.
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 dragged on a bit July 14, 2008
this book is a very accurate portrayal of growing up bored out of your mind with nothing else to do but cause trouble. the characters are people you know and can connect with, though I could only connect with Alaska. In the end it dragged on a bit and the plot twists were easily read before they happened. the last maybe 100 pages are not necessary. still a good read.
 Greatest Book~*~* MUST READ May 7, 2008
Looking for Alaska by John Green, is an amazing book. I was a little apprehensive about reading it with my 10th graders, but they immediately fell in love with the book. For some of them, this was the first book they've ever finished, and at age 15-16 I think that speaks for itself.
You get so wrapped up in this book, you laugh, you cry, and you look at your own life. As soon as I finished I wanted to turn right back to the first page and start reading again, which isn't something that normally happens.
I would recommend this book to anyone above the age of 14. It's amazing and I can't wait to introduce it to more students.
Moving and pertinent May 5, 2008
I teach high school, and I really wanted to read this to my students. Unfortunately, it has some language usage and sexual references that make it impossible to read as a class. I would recommend it to a high school student, however. It is pertinent to things that may be happening in their lives, and it has some powerful literary elements that may someday make it a classic.
Great book for teens or adults April 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was my introduction into the real world of YA literature. When I took a job as a YA librarian last summer I was completely unprepared. I has never even heard of Meg Cabot! (For Shame.) I picked up a couple of books for the younger teens. They were nice. Interesting enough. They were not what YA lit is about, though. I learned that when I read Looking For Alaska.
My library director asked if I'd read it. She had not, but had heard it was good. What an understatement. I could not put the book down. Well, until the climax when I put it down for 2 days to recover. The characters are so real. They reminded me of people I actually went to school with. There was embrarassing sexual situations in the book that were all too familiar. The best compliment I can give is that the whole book was so real. It has left me with no other thought than that. REAL.
Very intriguing. February 26, 2008
I loved this book. First of all it's a short read. I have gotten two of my friends to read it in the past week and they both loved it. It's amazing because you don't see many of these types of books written by male authors. John Green gives new life to this type of literature and I am excited to read An Abundance of Katherines next.
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