title: Looking for Alaska
author: Green
description: Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist New York Times bestseller 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.
zlib_text: ALSO BY JOHN GREEN
  
  Looking for Alaska
  
  An Abundance of Katherines
  
  Paper Towns
  
  Will Grayson, Will Grayson
  
  WITH DAVID LEVITHAN
  
  
  
  
  
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