Looking for Alaska

Description: Miles "Pudge" Halter befriends some fellow boarding-school students and falls in love with Alaska Young, the razor-sharp, self-destructive nucleus of the group. When tragedy strikes, Pudge discovers the value of unconditional love. Speak

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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

An ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Top 10 - An ALA Quick Pick - A Booklist Editors' Choice selection - A Kirkus Best Book of the Year - An SLJ Best Book of the Year - A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best - A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age

"What sets this novel apart is the brilliant, insightful, suffering but enduring voice of Miles Halter." --Chicago Tribune

"Looking For Alaska is a showcase to the raw talent John Green has, the kind of talent that can make you close the crisp last page of a novel and come out as a different person....

A gem of modern literature." --Guardian

★ "What sings and soars in this gorgeously told tale is Green's mastery of language and the sweet, rough edges of Pudge's voice." --Kirkus

★ "Alive with sweet, self-deprecating humor." --SLJ

"Funny, sad, inspiring, and always compelling." --Bookpage

"The spirit of Holden Caulfield lives on." --Kliatt

"Stunning conclusion . . . one worthy of a book this good." --Philadelphia Inquirer