Looking for Alaska, John Green

Looking for Alaska is one of the coming of age books that will stick with you. Between the youthful antics of the teens (smoking, drinking, dreaming about sex and everything in between), the struggles of being a teen going to a boarding school and trying to figure out independence, and then the death of a friend - this book has it all.

From a personal standpoint, as a high schooler who lost a dear friend as in this book, I completely related to the emotional upheaval, the desperate search for answers, the lingering and lasting guilt of living.

Looking for Alaska may not be for the younger teen, but as a parent, I would be okay with my older, mature teen reading it. And, I think as a parent, this book is a good tool to see what it is your kids are doing behind your back. Come on, we all did stuff behind our parents’ backs.

Enjoy - John Green is a masterful storyteller.