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Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
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Trivia-on-Book: Looking for Alaska by John GreenIn his junior year, Miles Halter decided to leave his home in Florida in order to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama. He uses the words of Francois Rebelais' famous last words - "I go to seek a Great Perhaps" as an inspiration and reason for switching schools at such a late age. Miles likes to read biographies as well as memorize the author's last words.
At the school, he mates three...
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Looking for Alaska by John Green Digest & ReviewWith this digest companion, you'll enjoy: • Digest of the book Looking for Alaska • Reviews of the book and author • The reception of the book and reader's reactions • Stories beyond the digest • And more!
Disclaimer: This digest is an unofficial reader's guide to aide informed decisions, enhancing appreciation of the book. This is NOT a summary and does not contain any text of the original...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Publisher Annotation: Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred thousand dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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"Seventeen-year-old Charlotte 'Charlie' Ryder, a girl from a working class family whose talent for the arts has gained her entry into the exclusive St. Anne's school, is drawn into the circle of the larger-than-life Julia Buchanan, a former senator's daughter"--
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Random House Children's Books
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2007
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Before there was Eleanor and Park, there was Francesca and Will.
A compelling story of romance, family, and friendship, with humor and heart, perfect for fans of If I Stay, The Spectacular Now, and Looking for Alaska.
Francesca is stuck at St. Sebastian’s, a boys' school that pretends it's coed by giving the girls their own bathroom. Her only female companions are an ultra-feminist, a rumored slut, and an impossibly...
A compelling story of romance, family, and friendship, with humor and heart, perfect for fans of If I Stay, The Spectacular Now, and Looking for Alaska.
Francesca is stuck at St. Sebastian’s, a boys' school that pretends it's coed by giving the girls their own bathroom. Her only female companions are an ultra-feminist, a rumored slut, and an impossibly...
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Best friends Jane and Holly have jumped into the river off Swallow's Nest Bluff hundreds of times. But one day, Holly's jump goes wrong. Her body never comes up, yet something else does-a sad creature of mud, full of confusion and sorrow. It's Holly, somehow, trapped and mixed up with the river. And if Jane can't do something to help, Holly will take everybody down with her-even the people she loves the most. Blending Looking for Alaska's theme of...
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Does a father who abandoned his family deserve a second chance? Can an unwanted daughter restore her faith in men? Or has Billie already sabotaged her chance at first love? After her parents' divorce, introverted Billie Dixon buries herself in her studies. Her plan? To stay out of sight, out of mind, and out of trouble. But that plan fails when she starts at Bradford College. While hopeful to renew her relationship with her estranged father, Billie...
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Eugene's kidnapper was born in ancient Macedon. With his help, she plans to die in his backyard… unless her past catches up with them first. Nineteen-year-old Eugene sustains himself on routine and anxiety, saving up for college and overmanaging every detail of his predictable life. Things are going smoothly enough-until he's abducted by an immortal woman looking for a way to die. Yanked into Corinna's impossible life, he is warned of two things....
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"Set in the Pacific Northwest in the jittery, jacked-up early 1990s, Shelter in Place, by one of America's most thrillingly defiant contemporary authors, is a stylish literary novel about the hereditary nature of mental illness, the fleeting intensity of youth, the obligations of family, and the dramatic consequences of love. Joseph March, a twenty-one-year-old working class kid from Seattle, is on top of the world. He has just graduated college and...
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"In rural Iowa, Kaitlyn Stokes (18) witnesses a UFO over her house the night her father dies of cancer, giving her reason to believe the aliens took him away--as with Ezekiel's Wheel in the Old Testament. She secretly hopes he might someday return as an 'Ancient Astronaut,' a theory based on modern science. In the Pacific Northwest, Zachary Taylor (18) reports to his high school principal that he was abducted by aliens, his impromptu excuse for skipping...
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"Contemporary Romcom: When Graham Barnett named his diner The Tourist Trap, he meant it as a joke. Now he's stuck slinging reindeer dogs to an endless string of resort visitors who couldn't interest him less. Not even the sweet, enthusiastic tourist in the corner who blushes every time he looks her way... Two weeks in Alaska isn't just the top item on Zoey Caldwell's bucket list. It's the whole bucket. One look at the mountain town of Moose Springs...
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"Alexandra Collister came to her estranged cousins' B and B in Falls Lake, Alaska, looking for a fresh start. The surrounding forest can be harsh and unforgiving--luckily, rugged wilderness tracker Quinn Mantell offers to be her guide. Still recovering from a toxic previous relationship, Alex is wary of getting too close, but when savagely deep claw marks appear outside her bedroom window, keeping her distance from Quinn is no longer an option. Then...
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Cassidy Ivanoff and her father, John, work at the new and prestigious Curry Hotel outside Mt. McKinley. While John will be expedition and wilderness exploration guide for the wealthy tourists, Cassidy has signed on as a cook's assistant. Both are busy as the hotel prepares to welcome the president of the United States on his way to drive in the golden spike to officially complete the railroad. Allan Brennan travels to the Curry Hotel to be an apprentice...
16) Wild Man Island
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.
17) Alaska home
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Midnight sons volume Volume 3
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2017.
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Lonely men in Hard Luck, Alaska, looking for women. Our town might be cold, but our hearts are warm. Location: north of the Arctic Circle. Population: 150 (mostly men). But the three O'Halloran brothers, who run a bush-plane charter service called Midnight Sons, are heading a campaign to bring women to town.
Falling for Him (©1996) : Christian, the youngest O'Halloran brother, has a problem, and her name is Mariah Douglas. The Midnight Sons secretary...
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In the minds of most Americans, Native culture in Alaska amounts to Eskimos and igloos. The latest publication of the Alaska Geographic Society offers an accessible and attractive antidote to such misconceptions. Native Cultures in Alaska blends beautiful photographs with informative text to create a striking portrait of the state's diverse and dynamic indigenous population.
19) Hard to break
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"Mike Gannon always wanted to go to Alaska. That's why when a bucket-list grizzly bear trip to the Klondike comes up, he's on it with both feet. But as he arrives up in the northern wilds, he discovers other hunters are there. And they're not looking for grizzly. Soon Mike finds himself alone and captured on a corporate plane heading southbound for an incredibly lethal encounter that is about to blow his mind before it tries to blow him away. Mike's...