The John Green Collection (2 page)

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BCCB
, starred review of
Looking for Alaska

“What sings and soars in this gorgeously told tale is Green’s mastery of language . . . Girls will cry and boys will find love, lust, loss and longing in Alaska’s vanilla-and-cigarettes scent.”

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Kirkus Reviews
, starred review of
Looking for Alaska

“Readers will only hope that this is not the last word from this promising new author.”

—
Publishers Weekly
on
Looking for Alaska

“Green’s prose is astounding—from hilarious, hyperintellectual trash talk and shtick, to complex philosophizing, to devastating observation and truths. He nails it—exactly how a thing feels, looks, affects—page after page.”

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SLJ
, starred review of
Paper Towns

“Green ponders the interconnectedness of imagination and perception . . . he is not only clever and wonderfully witty but also deeply thoughtful and insightful.”

—
Booklist
, starred review of
Paper Towns

“Green knows what he does best and delivers once again with this satisfying, crowd-pleasing [book].”

—
Kirkus Reviews
on
Paper Towns

“[A] terrific high-energy tale of teen love, lust, intrigue, anger, pain, and friendship.” —
Booklist
, starred review of
Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Complete with honest language, interesting characters, and a heartfelt, gritty edge, this quirky yet down-to-earth collaboration by two master YA storytellers will keep readers turning pages.”

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SLJ
, starred review of
Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“An intellectually existential, electrically ebullient love story that brilliantly melds the ridiculous with the realistic.”

—
Kirkus Reviews
, starred review of
Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Funny, rude and original.”

—
New York Times Book Review
on
Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“A comedy as delicious as any whipped up by the Bard.”

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Washington Post Book World
on
Let It Snow

“There is plenty of physical humor for laugh-out-loud fun and enough dreamy romance to warm up those cold winter nights.”

—VOYA on
Let It Snow

“This is a great story illuminating the magic of the holidays and the strengths and weaknesses of friendships.”

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KLIATT
on
Let It Snow

“The authors share an ironic, idiosyncratic sense of humor that helps bind their stories, each with a slightly different tone and take on love, into one interconnected volume brimming with romance and holiday spirit.”

—
The Horn Book
on
Let It Snow

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Looking for Alaska

An Abundance of Katherines

Paper Towns

The Fault in Our Stars

looking for alaska

JOHN GREEN

Pages 18–19 and 155: Excerpt from
The General in His Labyrinth
,
by Gabriel García Márquez
Page 85: Poetry quote from “As I Walked Out One Evening,” by W. H. Auden
Page 89: Poetry quote from “Not So Far as the Forest,” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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First published in the United States of America by Dutton Books,
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Published by Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2007, 2012

Copyright © John Green, 2005
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THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE DUTTON EDITION AS FOLLOWS:

Green, John.
Looking for Alaska / John Green.—1st ed.
p.   cm.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Miles’ first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

[1. Interpersonal relations—Fiction.  2. Boarding schools—Fiction.  
3. Schools—Fiction.  4. Death—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.G8233Lo 2005
[Fic]—dc222004010827

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