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Looking for Alaska / John Green.

Green, John, 1977- (Author).

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Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780142402511
  • ISBN: 0142402516
  • ISBN: 9780329455286
  • ISBN: 0329455281
  • ISBN: 9781415668399
  • ISBN: 1415668396
  • ISBN: 9780525475064
  • ISBN: 0525475060
  • ISBN: 9780593109069
  • ISBN: 0593109066
  • Physical Description: 221 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Speak, 2007.

Content descriptions

Citation/References Note:
Wilson's Senior High School
School Library Journal starred
Five Owls
Target Audience Note:
Young Adult Follett Library Resources
Young Adult
850L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 11 86391.
Subject: Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Boarding schools > Fiction.
Schools > Fiction.
Death > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Private schools > Fiction.
Schools > Fiction.
Death > Fiction.
Genre: Teen fiction.

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  • 0 current holds with 58 total copies.
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Cass County Library-Archie YA GRE 2005 (Text) 0002204840926 Young Adult Fiction Available -
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Cass County Library-Harrisonville YA GRE 2007 (Text) 0002204403642 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Cass County Library-Pleasant Hill YA GRE (Text) 0002204382648 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Adair County Public Library TEEN F Green (Text) 34029002477551 Teen Fiction Available -
Albany Carnegie Public Library YA FIC GRE (Text) 35615000044922 Young Adult Fic Available -
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Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska
by Green, John
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Looking for Alaska


The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award * A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist * A New York Times Bestseller * A USA Today Bestseller * NPR's Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels * TIME magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time * A PBS Great American Read Selection * Millions of copies sold! First drink. First prank. First friend. First love. Last words. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words--and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green's arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction. Newly updated edition includes a brand-new Readers' Guide featuring a Q&A with author John Green

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