Looking for Alaska — Content Guide for Parents
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- ViolenceSupporting
- Scary contentSupporting
- ReligionBriefOther or made-up faith
- ProfanitySupporting
- Sexual contentSupporting
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- Climate
- Gender roles
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PRESENTContains references to prayer and church attendance. A minister character plays a supporting role in two chapters.
About this book
The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • TIME magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • A PBS Great American Read Selection • Millions of copies sold!
First drink. First prank. First friend. First love.
Last words.
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called “The Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.
Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction.
Frequently asked questions
Is Looking for Alaska appropriate for a 7-year-old?
Cruel pranks lead to plans for revenge, and a character's death may have been a suicide; the fatal car wreck itself is treated as an accident. A fatal car wreck is the center of the story, and a character has gruesome dreams about the wreck and its aftermath.
Does Looking for Alaska have violence?
Found (Supporting): Cruel pranks lead to plans for revenge, and a character's death may have been a suicide; the fatal car wreck itself is treated as an accident.
Does Looking for Alaska have scary content?
Found (Supporting): A fatal car wreck is the center of the story, and a character has gruesome dreams about the wreck and its aftermath.
Does Looking for Alaska have religion?
Found (Brief, Other or made-up faith): Reviewers describe a short stretch where the characters learn about Eastern religions, which helps the narrator think about life and death.
Does Looking for Alaska have race & culture?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Looking for Alaska have profanity?
Found (Supporting): The book's text contains strong swear words, and one source describes the language as running throughout.
Does Looking for Alaska have climate?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Looking for Alaska have sexual content?
Found (Supporting): The teen characters talk about and have sex, including a frank oral sex scene, and the book mentions masturbation and pornography.
Does Looking for Alaska have gender roles?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Looking for Alaska have gender & orientation?
Not found in the sources we checked.
