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Looking for Alaska Hardcover - 2005
by Green, John
- Used
In a stunning debut novel, Miles "Pudge" Halter befriends some fellow boarding school students whose lives are everything but boring. Pudge falls in love with Alaska, the razor-sharp and self-destructive nucleus. But when tragedy strikes, Pudge discovers the value of loving unconditionally.
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Details
- Title Looking for Alaska
- Author Green, John
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Young Readers Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-03-03
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4424779-6
- ISBN 9780525475064 / 0525475060
- Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.7 x 5.68 x 0.89 in (22.10 x 14.43 x 2.26 cm)
- Ages 14 to 17 years
- Grade levels 9 - 12
- Reading level 850
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Themes
- Geographic Orientation: Alabama
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Topical: Friendship
- Library of Congress subjects Death, Schools
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004010827
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
New York Times bestseller
First drink
First prank
First friend
First girl
Last words
Miles "Pudge" Halter is abandoning his safe-okay, boring-life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps."
Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring. Their nucleus is razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska, who has perfected the arts of pranking and evading school rules. Pudge falls impossibly in love. When tragedy strikes the close-knit group, it is only in coming face-to-face with death that Pudge discovers the value of living and loving unconditionally.
John Green's stunning debut marks the arrival of a stand-out new voice in young adult fiction.
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- ALA Best Books Young Adults, 03/01/2006, Page 7
- ALA Recmd for Reluctant YA's, 03/01/2006, Page 33
- Booklist Ed Choice Youth, 01/01/2006, Page 12
- Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 02/01/2005, Page 252
- Entertainment Weekly, 03/11/2005, Page 107
- Horn Book Magazine, 03/01/2005, Page 201
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2005, Page 334
- Kirkus Best Children's Books, 12/01/2005, Page 6
- Kirkus Review - Children, 03/01/2005, Page 287
- Kliatt, 03/01/2005, Page 12
- Publishers Weekly, 02/07/2005, Page 61
- School Library Journal, 02/15/2005, Page 136
- SLJ's Best Books, 12/01/2005, Page 45
- Voice of Youth Advocates, 04/01/2005, Page 39