num_pages: 272
description: "In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette, but even in the dark, I could see her eyes - fierce emeralds. And not just beautiful, but hot too."When Miles Halter leaves for boarding school, he goes to seek what dying poet Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps". Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, self-destructive and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth, catapulting him into an unimaginable future...Vivid, passionate, intensely moving an shocking, this is a stunning debut novel by young American author John Green.
language: English
title: Looking for Alaska
titlecomplete: Looking for Alaska
characters: Miles Halter, Chip Martin, Takumi Hikohito, Alaska Young, Lara Buterskaya
genres: Young Adult Contemporary, Young Adult, Coming Of Age, Teen, High School, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Mystery, Romance
ratings_count: 1529323
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: HarperCollins Children's Books