THE WEEK BEFORE I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.
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Looking for Alaska
a novel
1st ed.
by John Green
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Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
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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:bannedbooksShowing 10 featured editions. View all 57 editions?
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Qui es-tu Alaska?: [premiers amis, première fille, dernières paroles]
2014, Gallimard
in French
2070662551 9782070662555
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Cercando Alaska: chi sei? chi eri? perchè te ne sei andata?
2006, Fabbri
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Looking for Alaska: a novel
2005, Dutton Children's Books
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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.
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