![]() Miles finds adventure, uncertainty, and excitement in spades at Culver Creek, the boarding school he transfers to for his junior year of high school. And Miles doesn't just yearn for adventure-he goes out and gets it-which is a pretty inspirational move to boot. No matter how old you are or what your life's been like, that's a desire that pretty much anyone can relate to. And did we mention that it's Green's first novel? Because it is (it was published way back in 2005).īut if all of this fancy pants award winning doesn't pique your interest, then perhaps this will: Looking for Alaska is about a teen named Miles who desperately wants adventure. How the heck does John Green do all this in only 221 pages? We don't know for certain, but we do know that we're not the only ones who think Green is working some serious literary magic with: it won the prestigious Printz award in 2006, plus it's one of Kirkus's best books of the year, and it made the ALA best book for young adults top ten list. ![]() ![]() ![]() Illicit behavior.īased on this, Looking for Alaska sounds like a pretty great young adult book, right? But it's also a novel about the meaning of love, the power of grief, hope, and redemption… which means it's dealing with pretty major-and pretty universal-life stuff, too. ![]()
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