Looking for Alaska is about a guy who is looking for the great “perhaps”. Miles Halter leaves his home town to move to a boarding school in Alabama called “Culver Creek”. Through his new roommate Chip also known as “Colonel”, he meets a girl by the name of “Alaska” in which he instantly falls in love with. They naturally all build a friendship by how much time they spend together by smoking cigarettes at the “smoking hole”, drinking together, and playing pranks on “The Weekend Warriors”. One night as they are preparing to do a prank on the Warriors, they get drunk and Alaska ends up confessing some real issues she has kept a secret. The boys then realize that is the reason she is unstable. No matter how unpredictable or unstable Alaska is, Miles is oblivious to any of her problems. The next night while they are drinking, Alaska receives a call and begins to cry hysterically. She then asks the guys to help her escape campus and they later find out that she died in a car accident. The two guys go through a journey trying to figure out if she committed suicide or if it was truly an accident. This book is intended for an audience in the 9th grade and above. I would recommend this title to students who have emotional issues dealing with guilt and the loss of a parent. This book could provide support for students who can identify themselves with characters from the story being around the same age, and may be going through some of the same obstacles.
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