{"first_publish_date": "July 3, 2006", "key": "/works/OL265426W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL5046634A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL9169368A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL9084897A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL12686689A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL12686688A"}}], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "THE WEEK BEFORE I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party."}], "title": "Looking for Alaska", "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "THE WEEK BEFORE I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party."}, "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Boarding schools", "Death", "Grief", "Interpersonal relations", "Traffic accidents", "Young adult fiction", "Schools", "Juvenile Fiction", "Death, Grief, Bereavement", "Social Themes", "Private schools", "Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse", "Dating & Sex", "Children's fiction", "Interpersonal relations, fiction", "Boarding schools, fiction", "Death, fiction", "Alabama, fiction", "Michael L. Printz Award", "Ficci\u00f3n juvenil", "Relaciones humanas", "Escuelas", "Muerte", "Internados (Escuelas)", "Ficcion juvenil", "Large type books", "JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Adolescence", "nyt:paperback-books=2012-07-29", "New York Times bestseller", "YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Death & Dying", "YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse", "YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Dating & Sex", "collectionID:EanesChallenge", "Relations humaines", "Romans, nouvelles", "Internats", "Mort", "Vie", "Philosophie", "Roman pour jeunes adultes", "collectionID:ConroeChallenge", "collectionID:bannedbooks", "Boarding schools Alabama Fiction", "Boarding schools Juvenile fiction", "Death Juvenile fiction", "Interpersonal relations Juvenile fiction", "Schools Juvenile fiction", "Young Adult Fiction"], "covers": [12614602, -1, 13696042, 14061157, 14061156], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Before. Miles \u201cPudge\u201d Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave \u201cthe Great Perhaps\u201d even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . . \r\nAfter. Nothing is ever the same."}, "lc_classifications": ["PZ7.G8233 Lo 2005"], "dewey_number": ["[Fic]"], "subject_places": ["Alabama", "Florida"], "latest_revision": 28, "revision": 28, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-24T13:14:43.487239"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-31T18:54:26.436511"}}