num_pages: 221
description: Before. 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.
language: English
title: Looking for Alaska
titlecomplete: Looking for Alaska
characters: Chip Martin, Alaska Young, Miles Halter, Lara Buterskaya, Takumi Hikohito
genres: Realistic Fiction, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary, Young Adult, High School, Teen, Mystery, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1529423
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: Speak