num_pages: 221
description: The award-winning, genre-defining debut from #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our StarsFirst drinkFirst prankFirst friendFirst girlLast wordsMiles “Pudge” Halter is abandoning his safe-okay, boring-life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.”Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring. Their nucleus is razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska, who has perfected the arts of pranking and evading school rules. Pudge falls impossibly in love. When tragedy strikes the close-knit group, it is only in coming face-to-face with death that Pudge discovers the value of living and loving unconditionally.John Green’s stunning debut marks the arrival of a stand-out new voice in young adult fiction.
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: 1529343
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: Dutton Books for Young Readers