Looking for Alaska (2005) (HarperCollins Children's Books)John Green
Grade: B
Genre: young adult
Source: own
Young adult RBC 2014: A book set in high school
When Miles Halter decides to
leave his family and public school in Florida and set off for boarding school,
he’s not leaving anything terrible important behind. His parents might miss
their only child, but he’s got no friends and being a compulsive
auto-/biography reader, Miles is compelled to seek out his ‘Great Perhaps’ in
the words of Franรงois
Rabelais. At Culver Creek, Miles find a loyal friend in his roommate Chip,
otherwise known as ‘the Colonel’, who insists on giving Miles his own nickname
of ‘Pudge.’ Miles is blown away by the sexy, vivacious, funny and
self-destructive Alaska Young, who, like the Colonel, adopts Miles and puts him
under her wing. Amid school pranks, failing pre-calc and his search for his
‘Great Perhaps, Alaska draws Pudge into her quest to find a way out of her
labyrinth of suffering, introducing him to her unique perspectives on life in
the process.
