The book is unique for having Unusual Chapter Numbers based around a two-part structure: "Before", which counts down the days to the story's climax, and "After", which shows the characters' reactions to it. Pudge has had it with his boring Florida high school, where he has no friends, and has decided to take a chance on the more prestigious Culver Creek high school in Alabama, inspired by the last words of French writer Francois Rabelais: "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." There, he picks up a smoking habit, thinks about God, and makes friends - the bossy but jovial Colonel, the dry Takumi, the sweet and withdrawn Lara, and the beautiful, dangerous Alaska Young, the lattermost for whom Pudge falls quickly and soundly. It is the Coming of Age Story of a boy named Miles Halter, who is nicknamed "Pudge" (so called because of his infernal skinniness) and has a hobby of memorizing the last words of famous people. It was released in 2005 and won the 2006 Michael L. Looking for Alaska is a young adult novel by John Green, and his debut novel.
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