Looking for Alaska / John Green

Author: Green, John, 1977-
Published: New York, New York : Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023.
Copyright Date: ©2005
Edition: Paperback edition.
Physical Description: 221, 9 pages ; 21 cm

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Summary

Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Subject(s)

Boarding school students—Fiction
Interpersonal relations in adolescence—Fiction
Boarding schools—Alabama—Fiction
Schools—Fiction
First loves—Fiction
Teenagers and death—Fiction
Last words—Fiction
Young adult fiction
Interpersonal relations—Fiction
Boarding schools—Fiction
Death—Fiction
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Death, Grief, Bereavement
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
Boarding school students
Boarding schools
First loves
Interpersonal relations in adolescence
Last words
Schools
Teenagers and death
Alabama

Genre(s)

Bildungsromans
Fiction
School fiction

ISBN

0525556540
9780525556541

Collection

Banned Books Week 2023 - Purchase made possible by Penn State Berks Student Initiated Funds.
Thun Library LGBTQ+ Collection

Note

Includes excerpt from Turtles all the way down.
Includes Readers guide.

Awards

Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2006

View MARC record | catkey: 41982833