Looking for Alaska

$15.99

Hardcover
Author: John Green
Publisher: Dutton
Publish Date: March 2005
Language: English
Reading Level: 5.8
EAN: 9780525475064

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Overview

The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down 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 Fran?ois 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.

Details

Pages: 240
Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.68 x 0.89 in
Lexile Score: 850
Interest Level: Upper Grade (UG)
Point Value: 11
ISBN: 0525475060

Awards

2008 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award - Nominee (Grades 9-12)
2008 Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee (Senior/Grades 10-12)
2007 Buckeye Children's Book Award - Nominee (Teen)
2007 Iowa High School Book Award - Nominee (Young Adult)
2007 Rhode Island Teen Book Award - Nominee (Ages 12 & Up)
2007 Virginia Readers Choice Award - Nominee (High School)
2007 Volunteer State Book Awards - Nominee (Young Adult)
2006 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended (Fourteen and Up)
2006 Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers - Nominee (Young Adult)
2006 Heartland Award - Honor Book (Young Adult)
2006 Kentucky Bluegrass Award - Winner (Grades 9-12)
2006 Michael L. Printz Award - Winner (Young Adult)
2006 Tayshas Reading - Commended (Young Adult)
2005 L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist (Young Adult Fiction)