After spending what seemed like an eternity in the Y.A. lit. section at Borders, I finally picked up John Green’s, Looking for Alaska, and decided that it would be a suitable candidate for book #99 (I will be counting down from 99 to 1). It took a few pages, but I was totally hooked.
Miles’s whole existence has revolved around his obsession with the last words of those who have died. When he decides that he needs a change from his unexciting, nearly friendless life in Florida, he journeys to Culver Creek, a boarding school in Alabama. It is his junior year, and he is at a new school away from his parents and everything that he has ever known. He falls into a group of eccentric friends and becomes wildly intrigued by Alaska Young, the spontaneous, poetry-reading, chain-smoking, sometimes-crazy girl who lives down the hall from him. At Culver Creek, Miles experiences a life change that one cannot possibly prepare for. There is alcohol. There is sex. There is morbidity. Don’t say that you haven’t been warned!
Tags: Y.A. Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
