Looking for Alaska: An Abundance of Katherines
by John Green
4.0
(124 ratings)353 pages78 editions2015Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage LearningISBN 9781410477545
About this book
A New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Michael L. Printz AwardAn ALA Top 10 Best Book for Young Adults and Quick Pick for Reluctant Young ReadersA 2005 Booklist Editors' Choice, Kirkus Best Book, Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home, and his obsession with famous last words only makes him crave "the Great Perhaps" (Rabelais). But at Culver Creek Boarding School, life becomes the opposite of safe. Because of gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up Alaska Young. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. After. Nothing is ever the same.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
- Published
- 2015
- Pages
- 353
- ISBN
- 9781410477545
- Language
- en
- Editions
- 78
About John Green
John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. Starting in 2007, John and his brother Hank were the hosts of a popular internet blog, "Brotherhood 2.0," (aka [vlogbrothers](https://www.youtube.com/@vlogbrothers)) where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except for weekends and holidays.
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