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The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars Millions of copies sold! ★ Michael L. Printz Award Winner ★ Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist ★ NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels ★ TIME Magazine's 100 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time ★ New York Times bestseller ★ USA Today bestseller 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. Reading Ebook Looking for Alaska By John Green ,Read PDF Looking for Alaska By John Green ,Read Looking for Alaska By John Green ,Book Looking for Alaska By John Green ,PDF Looking for Alaska By John Green Click here for Download Ebook Looking for Alaska By John Green PDF Free Click here Ebook Looking for Alaska By John Green For DOWNLOAD From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up—From the very first page, tension fills John Green's Michael L. Printz Award-winning novel (Dutton, 2005). Miles Halter, 16, is afraid that nobody will show up at his party because he doesn't have many friends. He loves to read biographies and discover the last words attributed to famous people. He's particularly intrigued with the dying words of poet Francois Rabelais: "I go to seek a great perhaps." Miles is leaving his loving Florida home for the "great perhaps" of the same Alabama boarding school attended by his father. Ominous chapter headings (40 days before, 10 days after) reveal that something tragic may happen. At school, Miles is accepted by a brainy group of pranksters led by his roommate and Alaska Young, a smart and sexy feminist. The teen becomes captivated by his new friends who spend as much energy on sex,

smoking, drinking, and cutting-up as they do on reading, learning, and searching for life's meaning. As the school year progresses, Miles's crush on Alaska intensifies, even after it becomes evident that her troubled past sometimes causes her to be self-destructive. This novel is about real kids dealing with the pressures of growing up and feeling indestructible. Listeners will be riveted as the friends band together to deal with the catastrophic events that plague their junior year, and rejoice at their triumphs. Jeff Woodman clearly delineates the voices for each character in an age-appropriate, smart-alecky manner, injecting great emotion while managing not to be overly sentimental. This story belongs in all collections for older young adults, especially those who like Chris Crutcher, David Klass, and Terry Trueman.—JoAnn Carhart, East Islip Public Library, NY Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review ★ Michael L. Printz Award Winner ★ Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist ★ NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels ★ TIME Magazine's 100 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time ★ An ALA Best Book for Young Adults Top 10 ★ An ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Readers ★ A Booklist Best Book of the Year ★ A Kirkus Best Book of the Year ★ A SLJ Best Book of the Year ★ A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age “What sets this novel apart is the brilliant, insightful, suffering but enduring voice of Miles Halter.” –Chicago Tribune “Funny, sad, inspiring, and always compelling.” –Bookpage “Stunning conclusion . . . one worthy of a book this good.” -–Philadelphia Inquirer “The spirit of Holden Caulfield lives on.” –Kliatt ★ “What sings and soars in this gorgeously told tale is Green’s mastery of language and the sweet, rough edges of Pudge’s voice. Girls will cry and boys will find love, lust, loss and longing in Alaska’s vanilla-and-cigarettes scent.” –Kirkus, starred review ★ “Miles’s narration is alive with sweet, self-deprecating humor, and his obvious struggle to tell the story truthfully adds to his believability. Like Phineas in John Knowles’s A Separate Peace, Green draws Alaska so lovingly, in self-loathing darkness as well as energetic light.” –SLJ, starred review ★ “Miles is a witty narrator who manages to be credible as the overlooked kid, but he's also an articulate spokesperson for the legions of teen searching for life meaning (his taste for famous last words is a believable and entertaining quirk), and the Colonel's smarts, clannish loyalties, and relentlessly methodological approach to problems make him a true original....There's a certain recursive fitness here, since this is exactly the kind of book that makes kids like Miles certain that boarding school will bring them their destiny, but perceptive readers may also realize that their own lives await the discovery of meaning even as they vicariously experience Miles' quest.” –BCCB, starred review “John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human. This is a book that will touch your life, so don’t read it sitting down. Stand up, and take a step into the Great Perhaps.” –K.L. Going, author of Fat Kid Rules the World, a Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book About the Author John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with David Levithan), and The Fault in Our Stars. His many accolades include the Printz Medal, a Printz Honor, and the Edgar Award. He has twice been a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. John was selected by TIME magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. With his brother, Hank, John is one half of the Vlogbrothers (youtube.com/vlogbrothers), one of the most popular online video projects in the world. You can join the millions who follow John on Twitter (@realjohngreen) and tumblr (fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com) or visit him online at johngreenbooks.com. John lives with his family in Indianapolis, Indiana. Customer Reviews Most helpful customer reviews 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Mature for Younger Readers By Laura Everybody on the internet is fairly obsessed with John Green, so I figured I should check out one of his books. He's certainly a good writer, and very effectively evoke emotion. However, I had a few problems with the book overall. 1)I thought this book was pretty explicit for a YA novel (both in terms of language and descriptions of scenarios). I've read some racy books, and it doesn't bother me when they're aimed at an adult audience. However, in YA books it tends to bother me - I think there is a way to write it so that books involve mature situations

without being too explicit for younger readers that read at a YA level. For example, I read Tamora Pierce's Lioness series in late-elementary school and early middle school - Alanna has adult relationships in the book, but they're written in a way that younger readers don't necessarily understand what's happening. And 2) I felt like the female characters weren't particularly well written. Alaska was essentially a depressive version of the manic pixie dream girl archetype that's been so popular lately, and Lara and Sarah had very little substance. Because of this, I think I had some trouble relating to any of the characters. 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Very good, but not his best By D.S. Cahr I love John Green, and think that "The Fault in Our Stars" and "An Abundance of Katherines" are modern classics that will be read for many years to come. "Looking for Alaska" (and "Paper Towns" for that matter) are both quite good, make no mistake about that, but neither are quite as amazing as TFIOS or AAOK. To be frank, both suffer deeply from Manic Pixie Dream Girl overload, and are weighed down with highly objectified dream girls at the center of each story who never really has any agency. Then again, all of us would be well advised to write a first novel as good as this one, and I might have been blown away had I not read his other books first. In other words, absolutely worth reading (especially due to the autobiographical element -- the book takes place at a boarding school in Alabama very similar to the one that Green himself attended), but not his best work. To say more would spoil it, but I should mention that this is not a book for "kids" -- it is a real young ADULT novel, with sex and trauma and all of that. 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Teen Angst, nothing new. By Megan Giles Nothing remarkable about this book, but it was fine to kill some time. It was not as I remember my teenage years being...does anyone ever STUDY or do homework in this story? The basic characters were fine, if a bit cardboard...the only one I really liked was the Colonel. He was good fun, and seemed realistic enough. Alaska herself seemed like a sociopath with no regard for her actions or how she made other people feel...at no point did I think "What a great friend she would be!" ( In fact, I have known people like her my whole life and they are train wrecks.) So when the Pudge character falls in love with this narcissist I just feel sorry for him, but he's young so it's within the realm of possibility. That all of her friends are male seems also apt since she relies on her sex appeal to get people to pay attention to her. What would she talk about with another girl? How she sent out vicious prank letters to students' families? If Alaska were a real person her friends would eventually all leave her. Nonetheless, this novel was interesting enough and helped me see that the Dean had a rotten job with no appreciation from the students. Poor man, seriously. See all 4534 customer reviews...

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