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Looking for Alaska

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Green, John, 1977-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Speak, 2007, c2005.
Subjects:	Interpersonal relations > Young adult fiction. Boarding schools > Young adult fiction. Schools > Young adult fiction. Death > Young adult fiction.
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Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Originally published: New York : Dutton Children's Books, 2005. Includes an excerpt of author's "An Abundance or Katherines."
Physical Description:	221, 11 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	9780593109069 0593109066 9780142402511 0142402516 9780525475064 0525475060
Author Notes:	John Green was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on August 24, 1977. He graduated from Kenyon College in 2000 with a double major in English and religious studies. Before becoming a writer, he was a publishing assistant and production editor for Booklist, which is a book review journal. His first novel, Looking for Alaska, was published in 2005 and won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in Young Adult literature in 2006. His other works include An Abundance of Katherines, a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book; Paper Towns, which won the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel and the 2010 Corine Literature Prize; and The Fault in Our Stars, which was a New York Times Best Seller. He is also the co-author, with David Levithan, of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. Two of John Green's titles, The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, have been made into major motion pictures. His title, An Abundance of Katherines, made the New York Times Best Seller List. Paper Towns made The New Zealand Best Seller List 2015. (Bowker Author Biography)