Looking For Alaska

Looking For Alaska

Green, J. (2005).  Looking for alaska.  NY:  Penguin.  Away at boarding school, Miles meets a girl named Alaska.  She is the leader of some crazy school pranks.  Alaska gets drunk and dies in a car crash.  Miles and his friends try to find out if it was a suicide or an accident.    Readers will like living vicariously through Miles and his friends as they are living in a boarding school, doing crazy pranks, sneaking cigarettes and booze, and still trying to pass their classes. The book goes from funny, when they get a stripper to pose as their annual speaker, to sad when you learn how Alaska's mother died.  In this Printz Honor book, John Green, the author of The Fault In Our Stars, captures the relationships in young adulthood. Miles and his friends have a great friendship because it is them against the "rich" kids. Miles and his roommate are a "nerdy" cool because Miles knows famous last words and Colonel knows capitals and populations. 

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