I have just started reading Looking For Alaska by John Green for my choice pleasure book. I have read three books by him, and I think that this one will be my favorite. John Green does a really good job of describing the characters. Miles Halter, the main character, is very life-like. He seems like your average teenager so I can really relate to him. I would definitely recommend this book to teens of all sorts! I would also recommend this book to teens who like to read a little bit of a challenging text.

So far in Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter is moving to Culvers Creek Preparatory School for his sophomore year of high school. He is a scrawny boy with not that many friends. He is ready to leave his parents and start a new life of his own! When he gets to Culvers Creek, he meets his roommate, Chip, nicknamed "The Colonel." The Colonel is rough; he smokes drinks, curses, and goes to wild parties, and he nicknames Miles,"Pudge." Miles instantly get influenced by Chip and he starts smoking too, just to "fit in."

Chip introduces Pudge to his friends, Takumi, Lara (Who had a crush on Miles), and... Alaska Young. On page 14 Pudge thought, "but I barely heard him because the hottest girl in all of human history was standing before me in cutoff jeans and a peach tank top." They all became like a squad. They always smoked with each other. One day though, "The Eagle" (the dean of the school) catches them smoking but Alaska totally takes the blame! Pudge later finds out that she took the blame because she ratted out Myra and Paul (who were caught in bed together after curfew), and Alaska feels really bad about that so she feels she has to make up for it. Nobody dares telling The Colonel about what Alaska did, because basically his motto is, "Don't rat." But who knows? Will someone tell Chip the truth?

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