Looking for Alaska

by John Green

Miles Halter leaves his safe life in Florida for Culver Creek boarding school, seeking what Rabelais called "the Great Perhaps." There he meets Alaska Young - brilliant, funny, self-destructive, and utterly captivating. What follows is a story about the beautiful and terrible things that happen when you fall for someone like that. John Green's debut novel won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.