![]() Reprinted with permission from Penguin Books. Both books have been finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, received many starred reviews, and been placed on numerous state award lists. John Green is the celebrated author of Printz-medalist, Looking for Alaska, and the Printz Honor Book, An Abundance of Katherines. An omnivorous reader, Alaska introduces him to a new set of last words - those of South American liberator Simón Bolivar - that pose an intriguing question, “How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?” It’s a question that takes on a deeper, more poignant resonance when an unthinkable tragedy invites Miles to examine the meanings of life… and death. Miles quickly falls in love with this reckless, quirky, endlessly intriguing girl. There he makes a new circle of friends: his roommate Chip, a scholarship student whom everyone calls “The Colonel ” Takumi, a slyly funny Japanese-American rapper and sweet-spirited, Romanian-born Lara, who has trouble pronouncing the letter “i.” But most importantly he meets Alaska, a beautiful girl who “had eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.” Miles Halter’s is knowing the last words of a lot of different people - people like the author Rabelais, whose enigmatic last words “I go to seek a Great Perhaps” inspire the sixteen-year-old to leave his family home in Florida and enroll in Culver Creek, a co-ed boarding school in Alabama. ![]()
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