Looking for alaska

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The work Looking for alaska represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Looking for alaska

Statement of responsibility

John Green

Creator

• Green, John
• trueGreen, John, 1977-

Subject

• trueFriends' death
• trueRealistic fiction
• Young Adult Fiction
• trueTeenage boys
• Electronic books
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueRules
• trueDeath
• trueInterpersonal relations
• trueBoarding schools
• trueTeenagers
• trueSelf-destructive behavior in teenagers
• trueUnhappiness in teenagers
• trueRisk-taking in teenagers
• trueLoss (Psychology)
• trueSchools
• trueTeenage boy/girl relations
• Young Adult Literature
• trueFriendship
• trueSixteen-year-old boys
• trueTeenage girls
• trueAlabama

Genre

• trueRealistic fiction
• Electronic books
• trueBooks for reluctant readers

Language

eng

Summary

The award-winning, genre-defining debut from #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our StarsWinner of the Michael L. Printz AwardLos Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistNew York Times bestsellerBefore. Miles "Pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .After. Nothing is ever the same

Theme

• trueBoarding school life

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueEmotionally intense
• trueSteamy
• trueSuspenseful

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Character

• trueWell-developed
• trueIntrospective

Award

• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2005
• Kentucky Bluegrass Award for Grades 9-12, 2006.
• Michael L. Printz Award, 2006.
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2006
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2009
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, 2006
• Inky Awards (Australia): Silver Inky, 2007.
• YALSA Outstanding Book for the College Bound, 2009.
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2005.
• Great American Read, 2018.

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Index

no index present

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

850

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 9
• 12

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adolescent