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Looking for Alaska

For the television series based on the novel, see Looking for Alaska (miniseries).

Looking for Alaska
against a stark grey background, a large plume of smoke rises from an extinguished candle
Looking for Alaska first edition cover
AuthorJohn Green
Cover artistNolan Gadient
LanguageEnglish
GenreYoung adult novel
PublisherDutton Juvenile
Publication date
2005
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages297
ISBN0-525-47506-0
OCLC55633822
LC ClassPZ7.G8233 Lo 2005

Looking for Alaska is a 2005 young adult novel by American author John Green. Based on his time at the private Indian Springs School, Green wrote the novel in order to create meaningful young adult fiction.[1] While he drew from people and events in his life, the novel is fictional.[1]

Looking for Alaska follows the novel's main character and narrator Miles Halter, or "Pudge," to boarding school. He seeks a "Great Perhaps," as in the famous last words of French writer François Rabelais. Throughout the 'Before' section of the novel, Miles and his friends Chip "The Colonel" Martin, Alaska Young, and Takumi Hikohito grow very close. The section culminates in Alaska's death.

In the second half of the novel, Miles and his friends work to discover the missing details of the night Alaska died. While struggling to reconcile Alaska's death, Miles grapples with the last words of Simón Bolívar and the meaning of life. There is no conclusion to these topics.

This coming-of-age novel explores themes of meaning, grief, hope, and youth–adult relationships. The novel won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association (ALA). In 2015 it led the association's list of most-challenged books, with profanity and a sexually explicit scene identified as objectionable.[2] Between 2010 and 2019, the ALA said that it was the fourth-most challenged book in the United States.[3] Schools in Kentucky, Tennessee, and several other states have attempted to place bans on the book.

In 2005, Paramount Pictures received the rights to produce a film adaptation of Looking for Alaska; however, the film failed to reach production.[4] More than a decade later, the novel was adapted as a television miniseries, under the same name, Looking for Alaska, premiered as a Hulu Original on October 18, 2019.[5]

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  3. ^ American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (September 9, 2020). "Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019". Banned & Challenged Books.
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