Edited sentence: "  Green also said, "The book has never been marketed to 12-year-olds.It is packaged like an adult book; it doesn't even say it's published by a kids' book imprint on the cover, and it's never shelved in the children's section of bookstores.The day after "barn night" Alaska teaches Lara how to give Miles a blow job.The main characters in the story are teenagers who also drink, smoke and use explicit language