“Looking for Alaska“ by John Green

The young adult novel “Looking for Alaska“ by John Green was published in March 2005.
 
The protagonist Miles Halter changes to a boarding school. In the novel he is called “Pudge“ by his friends at his new school. Making friends means a lot to Miles because he did not have any friends at his old school. The four friends Miles, Alaska, Colonel, Lara and Takumi play tricks and pranks. But after an accident nothing is ever the same.

Green wants to show us that dreams can become real and things can change so quickly. The themes of the novel are love and friendship. It’s an interesting and real-life story. Green might be talking about his own life because he is said to have experienced similar things in in his youth.

The story is written in easy English. Therefore, I would recommend it to people at my age and older.

 Kiril (14)

The novel "Looking for Alaska" by John Green was published in March 2005. 16-year-old Miles Halter leaves Florida for a boarding school in Alabama and finds good friends for the first time in his life, which means very much to him. One of them is Alaska, clever, funny, sexy, screwed up and utterly fascinating which makes Miles fall for her. Hard. The message of this novel is that you shouldn't let society pressure you and you should find out who you really are and what you want to be. It's also about how other people can change the way you see things. The language is pretty colloquial and feasible, which makes me recommend the novel to literally everyone (no matter how old they are).

Ilayda (14)