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Looking for Alaska

by John Green

2005 · young adult · young_adult

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Set in 2 places · 1 primary
Sense of Place
4/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)

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.*

Set in

  • ★
    Indian Springs School · United States
    model for Culver Creek boarding school
    ★ primary
  • Birmingham · United States
    nearby city outings

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