Looking for Alaska by John Green
by Sam Arnold-Boyd on Mar.18, 2013, under Printz Award, Real life, Student Reviews
Review by Natalie D.
Who would like this book? Grades 8 and up. Realistic fiction. Boys and Girls would enjoy this.
The goods on this book: Looking for Alaska is about Pudge, whose real name is Miles Halter. Miles has an obsession with famous last words, which inevitably leads him to the Great Perhaps (by a poet by the name Francois Rabelais). On his journey to the infamous Culver Creek Boarding School, Miles meets Alaska Young. She changes his life for the better and worse. Alaska, being the funny, smart, utterly gorgeous, screwed up person she makes herself out to be, flips Miles’ world upside down with her amazingly destructive and exciting world of her own. But after; Miles universe comes to a halting stop, which leads to a whiplash of emotions and throws him into the Great Perhaps. I love this book with such a passion as a fish in water. This book will build you up and potentially leave you with a wall of new feelings and opinions.
The details: 221 pp. 2005 Review by Natalie D.
