Looking for Alaska (original 2005; edition 2006)

by John Green

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Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

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Member:	kittycoo
Title:	Looking for Alaska
Authors:	John Green
Info:	Puffin (2006), Paperback, 256 pages
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Looking for Alaska by John Green (2005)

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▾Awards and Honors

Awards

Alabama Author Award (Young Adult – 2006)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Finalist – Young Adult Literature – 2005)

Audie Award (Finalist – Children's Titles – Ages 12+ – 2007)

Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award (Nominee – Teen – 2007)

Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee – 2009)

The Flume: NH Teen Reader's Choice Award (Nominee – 2007)

Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (Nominee – 2007)

Green Mountain Book Award (Winner – 2008)

Heartland Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature (Honor Book – 2006)

Inky Awards (Winner – Silver Inky – 2007)

Iowa High School Book Award (Winner – 2008)

Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Winner – Grades 9-12 – 2006)

Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award (Nominee – 2009)

Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee – Senior – 2008)

Printz Award (Winner – 2006)

Rhode Island Teen Book Award (Nominee – 2007)

Thumbs Up! Award (Honor – 2006)

Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee – 2007?)

Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee – High School – 2007)

Volunteer State Book Award (2008)

Distinctions

Book Sense Summer Pick Teen Readers (2005)

Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books (2005)

LiveLib Rating (2012)

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Canonical title

Original title

Looking for Alaska

Alternative titles

Original publication date

2005-01-01

People/Characters

Important places

Culver Creek (boarding school, Alabama, USA)

Alabama, USA

Important events

Related movies

Looking for Alaska (2019 | IMDb)

Epigraph

Dedication

To my family: Sydney Green, Mike Green, and Hank Green
"I have tried so hard to do right."
(last words of President Grover Cleveland)

First words

The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.

Quotations

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

If only we could see the string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing is useless.

When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we are never irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they are old. They get scared of losing and failing.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

When you're walking at night, do you ever get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want to run home?

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Publisher's editors

Strauss-Gabel, Julie

Blurbers

Going, K.L.

Original language

English

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Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

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