Looking For Alaska

Looking for Alaska
By: John Green

221p
Dutton's Children Book

ISBN-10: 014241221X
ISBN-13: 978-0142412213

Annotation 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.

Summary:
When Miles begins his first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Birmingham, Alabama he is liked but not well known, that is until he meets his dorm mate Chip, a genius with tons of ill will towards the wealthy that attend the school.

Chip just happens to have one person that may change Miles' life forever, Alaska Young. Alaska has the ability to make anyone fall deeply in love, with just a glance. She is beautiful and intelligent and dangerous. A Holden Caulfied of sorts, Miles tries to woo the gorgeous Alaska, until something tragic occurs.

This novel is filled with stark realism, it is filled with feelings of loss and grief. Green does not produce a warm and fuzzy happy ending, which makes the character all that more real. Teens will appreciate the depth that Green goes to provide a story with such drama on a level accessible to them.

Strong language and sexual references are abound so readers beware.