Looking for Alaska

Miles Halter, a sixteenyearold with a fascination for last words, begins his scholastic adventure at Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama with an introduction to his roommate, Chip Colonel Martin, a trailerbred genius. Chip nicknames the skinny Miles, Pudge, and introduces him to Alaska Young, a beautiful literate and intellectually gifted teenager, with a head full of elaborate pranks. Under the tutelage of his new and real friends, Miles learns to drink, smoke, escape punishment, and understand people. A few days following a major adrenaline-pumping prank there is a death.