description: The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our StarsComing soon to Hulu as a limited series!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 • Millions of copies sold!First drink. First prank. First friend. First love.Last words.Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called “The Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction.
language: English
title: Looking for Alaska
titlecomplete: Looking for Alaska
characters: Alaska Young, Lara Buterskaya, Chip Martin, Takumi Hikohito, Miles Halter
genres: High School, Young Adult, Romance, Teen, Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult Contemporary, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Coming Of Age
ratings_count: 1530105
places: Alabama
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Young Adult Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Michael L. Printz Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Jugendbuch, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: The Inky Awards
category: Silver Inky, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Bronzener Lufti, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Green Mountain Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: The Inky Awards Shortlist
category: Silver Inky, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Alabama Author Award
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas
category: Mejor novela extranjera independiente
publisher: Brilliance Audio