You just use the future to escape the present. (.) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. Printz Award in 2006 from The American Library Association. This novel is based on John Green’s time in Indian Spring School. 'Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. Looking for Alaska is written by John Green. Overall, I think this book deserves five stars. Everything that might offend people is there for a reason.Īs for the actual story, it's about Miles Halter, who is fascinated by last words, and how he goes to a boarding school and meets Alaska Young. However, without these, this book would be entirely different - and probably not as powerful. There is a good amount of drinking/drugs/smoking. It’s not a typical YA novel as John Green has shifted from a conventional high school romance to. If you read this book with a parent (like I did) I think a younger age would be suitable.įor additional warnings for parents, I would say this: L ooking For Alaska is a young adult novel written by John Green which was published in 2005. The characters are fully developed and the description is stunning.Īs for the 14+ rating, I this is the rating if you read it alone. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked 1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction. Like all John Green books, it is written beautifully. Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. And yes, it's on the banned booklist, but this is a book aimed at the YA crowd for YA readers, so saying that teens can't read about other teens facing the same problems they might face sort of defeats the purpose. I think that everyone should read this, especially teenagers. Despite the 16+ rating, I read this book when I was 11 years old.

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