Looking for Alaska

Description:

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.*

subjects: Fiction,  Boarding schools,  Death,  Grief,  Interpersonal relations,  Traffic accidents,  Young adult fiction,  Schools,  Juvenile Fiction,  Death, Grief, Bereavement,  Social Themes,  Private schools,  Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse,  Dating & Sex,  Children's fiction,  Interpersonal relations, fiction,  Boarding schools, fiction,  Death, fiction,  Alabama, fiction,  Michael L. Printz Award,  Ficción juvenil,  Relaciones humanas,  Escuelas,  Muerte,  Internados (Escuelas),  Ficcion juvenil,  Large type books,  JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Adolescence,  nyt:paperback-books=2012-07-29,  New York Times bestseller,  YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Death & Dying,  YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse,  YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Dating & Sex,  collectionID:EanesChallenge,  Relations humaines,  Romans, nouvelles,  Internats,  Mort,  Vie,  Philosophie,  Roman pour jeunes adultes,  collectionID:ConroeChallenge,  collectionID:bannedbooks,  Boarding schools Alabama Fiction,  Boarding schools Juvenile fiction,  Death Juvenile fiction,  Interpersonal relations Juvenile fiction,  Schools Juvenile fiction

People: Miles Halter,  Alaska Young,  Chip Martin,  Takumi Hikohito,  Lara Buterskaya

Places: Alabama,  Florida