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Titles
- Looking For Alaska (Printz Award Winner)
- Looking For Alaska: A Novel
- Looking for Alaska
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Attribution
by John Green
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Publication Details
BookFirst Edition, First PrintingDutton Juvenile2005
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Availability
- Collingswood Juv Fiction
Y Fic Gre (AVAILABLE)
- Collingswood Juv Fiction
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Description
Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring.
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Author
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Genre
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People and Characters
- Miles Halter
- Pudge
- Alaska Young
- Chip Martin
- The Colonel
- Miles’ mother
- Miles’ father
- Kevin Richman
- student
- Mr. Starnes
- Culver Creek dean
- the Eagle
- Maureen
- Culver Creek cook
- Takumi
- Japanese student
- Dr. Hyde
- the Old Man
- World Religions teacher
- Longfellow Chase
- Sara
- the Colonel’s girlfriend
- Lara
- Romanian student
- Dolores Martin
- the Colonel’s mother
- Maxx
- male stripper
- Madame O’Malley
- French teacher
- Jake
- Alaska’s boyfriend
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Place
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Subject
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Notes
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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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ISBN
- 0525475060
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