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Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter’s whole life has been one big non-event. Then he heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-butboring 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 pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into a new life, and steals his heart. After. Nothing is ever the same. The Printz Award–winning modern classic is now available in the successful Premium Edition format with a bonus reading guide and a letter from John Green.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Mass Market Paperback
EAN: 9780142412213
ISBN: 014241221X
Label: Speak
Manufacturer: Speak
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2008-08-14
Publisher: Speak
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Speak


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: A Beautiful Novel
Comment: I've had this book in my library for maybe four years. I can't count the number of times I had read the first few pages and put it down. Two days ago I finally decided to buckle down and read it and I'm happy I did. I really loved this book because it made me think. The last words, the views on different religions, I didn't expect any of it. Mr. Green definitely knows how to write a great novel.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Brilliant storytelling and engaging, witty characters
Comment: I'm typically a YA fantasy author/reader-- usually, contemporary fiction isn't my thing. LOOKING FOR ALASKA, however, is a contemporary fiction that has stuck with me for years, through multiple re-readings, and is a book I continuously recommend to my students and other teens who cross my path.

While the setting and plot are fantastic, I think Green's real strength is his characters. None of them are cardboard cutouts-- they're all developed, three dimensional, and engaging-- I was as invested in Chip and Takumi's stories as I was in Pudge and Alaska's.

One thing I especially love about this piece is that the setting, plot, and characters mesh together perfectly. So many books stick characters in a random city and then rely on plot to move things along, but in ALASKA Culver Creek Prep serves as it's own character, in a way, pushing the characters along to their various developments. Green largely based Culver Creek on his time at Indian Springs Prep in Birmingham, Alabama.

Overall, I can't see how this book could avoid becoming a new classic, and is, in my opinion, Green's best work. A must read for any teen, and a book not lost on adults either.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Seriously, Amazing
Comment: When I got this book recommended for myself by a friend, I was hesitant to read it. I thought the title Looking for Alaska meant that an old couple would try to go back to their hometown in Alaska and find the spots they use to hang out by when they were young. Boy was I wrong. The story takes place in Alabama, but the main character is a boy from Florida struggling to make friends. He begs his parents to let him enroll in Culver Creek Private School in Alabama hoping to find "The Great Perhaps." Miles Halter the main character gets put in a room with another boy named Chip, but called the "Colonel" by everyone. He is dirt poor, but is a genius. His best friend, Alaska, was a rebellious attractive girl he fell in love with, but she was already in a relationship. Miles experiences love, friendship, loyalty, his first girlfriend and death. Alaska gets into a car accident and his friendship with her was to short. This book had non-stop action, and is very serious. It is meant for mature kids, because of the vivid language, and actions. This was one of the best books I have ever read, and probably the most realistic.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Must read for all teens
Comment: Miles Halter is sick of not having a life, so he leaves boring Florida for Culver Creek Boarding School in Alabama in search of the Great Perhaps, a desire for something more to life inspired by the last words of poet François Rabelais. And Culver Creek is all Miles, ironically nicknamed Pudge, has been looking for because there, Pudge has genuine friends and an introduction to the wilder side of life via Alaska Young. Alaska is the most beautiful, enigmatic, fascinating, ingenious, mysterious, and dangerous girl Pudge has ever met, so it's no wonder she steals Pudge's heart and changes his entire perception of life. And it's no wonder, after everything is said and done, that Pudge cannot alter the terrible greatness that is Alaska.

A beautiful tale of love and loss, life and death, Looking for Alaska succeeds in being hilarious, heart wrenching, and profound. Green's realistically portrayed characters are so well created and placed that they become more than just words on paper, particularly the enigma that is Alaska. Alaska is the type of girl everyone loves to hate but don't, and he sometimes impulsive and elusive behavior embodies the exploration and some of the greatest questions that I feel are at the heart of what it means to be a teenager. It's not just about eh cigarettes, booze, and defying authority; it's about learning to live, with the past and as oneself, and doing something right in one's own view. This is a novel so soul searching of two amazing characters, primarily through narrator Pudge and indirectly Alaska. It asks and attempts to answer some of the most difficult questions about life and identity in a way that will stimulate readers' minds. Reading this novel will give readers a greater understanding and appreciation for living.

I know great writing when I see it, and Looking for Alaska most definitely fits this category. I'd rate it among some of the all time best teen literature I've ever read. Fans of this novel will also enjoy the similar and less tragic Paper Towns also by John Green, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart, Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers, and Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Highly Inappropriate for a School Library
Comment: Due to the sections where the 2 main characters (male and female) are watching porn movies together and the comments she makes to instruct the teen boy and the sections on their rather graphic sexual experiences together, this book is VERY inappropriate for a school HS library. Language is also crude.

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