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	• Looking For Alaska John Green, 2005 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 77 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great book for teens or adults

This book was my introduction into the real world of YA literature. When I took a job as a YA librarian last summer I was completely unprepared. I has never even heard of Meg Cabot! (For Shame.) I picked up a couple of books for the younger teens. They were nice. Interesting enough. They were not what YA lit is about, though. I learned that when I read Looking For Alaska.
My library director asked if I'd read it. She had not, but had heard it was good. What an understatement. I could not put the book down. Well, until the climax when I put it down for 2 days to recover. The characters are so real. They reminded me of people I actually went to school with. There was embrarassing sexual situations in the book that were all too familiar. The best compliment I can give is that the whole book was so real. It has left me with no other thought than that. REAL.

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Great.

This is a fantastic book that I reccomend for teens and young adults. Witty and original, it is a great novel.

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Very intriguing.

I loved this book. First of all it's a short read. I have gotten two of my friends to read it in the past week and they both loved it. It's amazing because you don't see many of these types of books written by male authors. John Green gives new life to this type of literature and I am excited to read An Abundance of Katherines next.

Greatest Book~*~* MUST READ

Looking for Alaska by John Green, is an amazing book. I was a little apprehensive about reading it with my 10th graders, but they immediately fell in love with the book. For some of them, this was the first book they've ever finished, and at age 15-16 I think that speaks for itself.

You get so wrapped up in this book, you laugh, you cry, and you look at your own life. As soon as I finished I wanted to turn right back to the first page and start reading again, which isn't something that normally happens.

I would recommend this book to anyone above the age of 14. It's amazing and I can't wait to introduce it to more students.

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Moving and pertinent

I teach high school, and I really wanted to read this to my students. Unfortunately, it has some language usage and sexual references that make it impossible to read as a class. I would recommend it to a high school student, however. It is pertinent to things that may be happening in their lives, and it has some powerful literary elements that may someday make it a classic.

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Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award

An ALA Best Book for Young Adults

An ALA Quick Pick

A Los Angeles Times 2005 Book Prize Finalist

A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age

A 2005 Booklist Editor?s Choice

A 2005 School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

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 (François 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.

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