Well, good for them and shame on our parents for allowing such books in the libraries. I have had parents tell me that they read books like this when they were young. According to other parents, it’s also available at Owyhee, Rocky, Eagle High, Eagle Academy, Meridian High, and Renaissance in the West Ada School District as well in Idaho Falls and Kuna High School.
IT IS and it looks like 5 copies are ready and waiting for our children. This book is disgusting! I checked to see if it was available at Skyview High School in Nampa, Idaho. (Mar.Looking for Alaska by John Green has an Interest Level of grades 9-12 and a Reading Level is grades 4-10. Readers will only hope that this is not the last word from this promising new author. But the novel's chief appeal lies in Miles's well-articulated lust and his initial excitement about being on his own for the first time.
Theological questions from their religion class add some introspective gloss. After Alaska drives drunk and plows into a police car, Miles and the Colonel puzzle over whether or not she killed herself. Green replaces conventional chapter headings with a foreboding countdown-"ninety-eight days before," "fifty days before"-and Alaska foreshadows her own death twice ("I may die young," she says, "but at least I'll die smart").
Readers may pick up on clues that she is also doomed. Other than her occasional hollow, feminist diatribes, Alaska is mostly male fantasy-a curvy babe who loves sex and can drink guys under the table. When he chucks his boring existence in Florida to begin this chronicle of his first year at an Alabama boarding school, he recalls the poet Rabelais on his deathbed who said, "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." Miles's roommate, the "Colonel," has an interest in drinking and elaborate pranks-pursuits shared by his best friend, Alaska, a bookworm who is also "the hottest girl in all of human history." Alaska has a boyfriend at Vanderbilt, but Miles falls in love with her anyway. This ambitious first novel introduces 16-year-old Miles Halter, whose hobby is memorizing famous people's last words.
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