Looking for Alaska is one of my favorite young adult books! I read it last spring because I heard so much about the book and its author and now I understand why so many people are excited this beautifully written book.
This was a very descriptive story with so many interesting details and very well developed, likable characters. The book is about teenager named Miles "Pudge" Halter who goes off a boarding school in Alabama and falls for a girl named Alaska. Alaska is a complicated girl and Pudge spends most of the book trying to understand her and how he feels about her. The author does an excellent job of describing events, emotions, thoughts, and feelings in a way that makes it easy to relate to the characters. We're learning about developing "voice" in our writing and this book is an great example of writing that has a very strong and appropriate voice.
I don't want to give too much away but in the book Pudge deals with two different kinds of conflict. He struggles with the typical coming-of-age/growing-up kinds of issues that you're all dealing with in middle school and also in high school. He also deals with a much more difficult issue that you will find out about when you read the book.
This is a great read and I highly recommend it.
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