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Genre/Form: | Young adult fiction Michael L. Printz Award winner, Fictional Work Juvenile materials Young adult works Fiction Juvenile works Coming of age stories Romans Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Green, John, 1977- Looking for Alaska. New York : Dutton Children's Books, ©2005 (OCoLC)734732947 |
Material Type: | Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Green |
ISBN: | 0525475060 9780525475064 141558902X 9781415589021 0142402516 9780142402511 9780142412213 014241221X 9781435249158 1435249151 9780605640153 0605640157 9781415668399 1415668396 9780007424832 0007424833 |
OCLC Number: | 55633822 |
Awards: | Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2006. Kentucky Bluegrass Award, 2006 |
Target Audience: | Young adult.; 850L |
Description: | 221 pages ; 22 cm |
Series Title: | 2018 Great American Read. |
Responsibility: | a novel by John Green. |
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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 Read more...
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Looking for Alaska by John Green
Green, John (2005). Looking for Alaska. New York: Dutton Books.
Set in an Alabama boarding school, the narrator, Pudge (so nicknamed because of his skinniness), tells the story of five friends trying to make it through their junior year together. But tragedy strikes, and making...
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Green, John (2005). Looking for Alaska. New York: Dutton Books.
Set in an Alabama boarding school, the narrator, Pudge (so nicknamed because of his skinniness), tells the story of five friends trying to make it through their junior year together. But tragedy strikes, and making sense of the world becomes more difficult than just trying to pass classes and prank the other students.
Despite a somber story line, this book made me laugh out loud at times. Green writes good dialogue and makes the teens in this book smart, sensitive, sarcastic, and cynical, without sacrificing their innocence.
What makes this book work: it shows a good sense of how a person can change and mature over a period of time. Even though the boarding school seems to be chaotically loose, the story seems true-to-life due to excellent character development shown through action, dialogue, and Pudge's inner thoughts.
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