num_pages: 268
description: 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 Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska 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 stunning debut, it marks John Green's arrival as an important new voice in contemporary fiction.
language: English
title: Looking for Alaska
titlecomplete: Looking for Alaska
characters: Alaska Young, Miles Halter, Chip Martin, Takumi Hikohito, Lara Buterskaya
genres: Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary, Coming Of Age, Mystery, Teen, Young Adult, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, High School
ratings_count: 1529825
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