Title: Looking for Alaska
First published: July 3, 2006
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Boarding schools, Death, Grief, Interpersonal relations, Traffic accidents, Young adult fiction, Schools, Juvenile Fiction, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Social Themes, Private schools, Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, Dating & Sex, Children's fiction, Interpersonal relations, fiction, Boarding schools, fiction, Death, fiction, Alabama, fiction, Michael L. Printz Award, Ficción juvenil, Relaciones humanas, Escuelas, Muerte, Internados (Escuelas), Ficcion juvenil, Large type books, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Adolescence, nyt:paperback-books=2012-07-29, New York Times bestseller, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Death & Dying, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Dating & Sex, collectionID:EanesChallenge, Relations humaines, Romans, nouvelles, Internats, Mort, Vie, Philosophie, Roman pour jeunes adultes, collectionID:ConroeChallenge, collectionID:bannedbooks
LC classification: PZ7.G8233 Lo 2005