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Looking for Alaska by John Green

Updated: Oct 5

Grief, love, and growing up — all wrapped in one unforgettable story.


Black cover with a wisp of rising white smoke curling upward from the bottom center. A gold award medallion is printed near the smoke. The title Looking for Alaska appears in lowercase white letters inside a red box, with John Green in blue below.

Challenged for sexual content and language, yet readers connect deeply to its honesty about loss and self-discovery.


Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.


Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction.





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