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Looking for Alaska
She is unforgettable. Green makes sure you understand why. Then he shows you what it means to be left behind by someone like that.
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Before and After
John Green's 2005 debut novel follows Miles Halter, a quiet Florida boy who enrols at Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama in pursuit of the last words of famous last words. He meets Chip the Colonel and Alaska Young, brilliant, self-destructive, funny, broken, the most magnetic person he has ever encountered. The novel is structured in two sections: the weeks and days before a specific event, and after. What happens is not a mystery but a devastation. The novel won the Michael L. Printz Award and established Green as one of the defining voices in young adult fiction. It was adapted into a Hulu series in 2019.


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Reading Looking for Alaska
2 Arriving
4 Magnetic
3 Grounded
3 Alive
5 Rupture
4 Searching

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We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.


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Green wrote the novel partly based on his own experience at the Indian Springs boarding school in Alabama. He has said Alaska is not any single person he knew but a composite of qualities he observed.
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The novel won the Michael L. Printz Award in 2006 and was frequently challenged in schools for its depiction of drinking, smoking, and sexuality. It was adapted into a Hulu miniseries in 2019 that Green wrote with Josh Schwartz.


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