First drink, first prank, first friend, first girl, last words...Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words - and tired of his safe, boring, and rather lonely life at home. He leaves for boarding school filled with cautious optimism, 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. This work is poignant, funny, heartbreaking, and compelling.
| ISBN | 0007209231 | | DEWEY | 813.6 | | ISBN13 | 9780007209231
(What's this?) | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers | | Published in | London | | Imprint | HarperCollins Children's Books | | Height (mm) | 203 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 136 | | Publication date | 03 Apr 2006 | | Academic level | Teenage / young adult |
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"Miles's narration is alive with sweet, self-deprecating humor, and his obvious struggle to tell the story truthfully adds to his believability." School Library Journal "What sings and soars in this gorgeously told tale is Green's mastery of language and the sweet, rough edges of Pudge's voice. Girls will cry and boys will find love, lust, loss and longing in Alaska's vanilla-and-cigarettes scent." Kirkus "This is an amazing first novel by a writer who is young enough to vividly remember his powerful years of high school and he expertly turns remembrance into story." Children's Literature "The novel's chief appeal lies in Miles's well-articulated lust and his initial excitement about being on his own for the first time." Publishers Weekly
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