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–High School Only–

Miles Halter, “Pudge,” spends the first half of his junior year at Culver Creek trying to find what he philosophically calls “the great perhaps” and trying to get a kiss from the moody and beautiful Alaska Young.

“Pudge” spends the second half of his junior year at Culver Creek trying to figure out what really happened the night he finally got that kiss and Alaska tragically died in a car crash near campus.

“Pudge” and three of Alaska’s closest friends finally find “the great perhaps” after they pull off the greatest school prank of all in Alaska’s honor.

The 2006 Michael L. Printz Award for outstanding young adult literature was given to John Green for this first novel. Are you curious about how authors find out about awards like this? John’s parents were with him when he received the call from Printz committee chair and his dad had a digital camera. You can see the picture’s on John’s blog.

Tobin’s grandmother is embarassingly wacky, his father has never gotten over his mother’s death and his brothers are notorious troublemakers in their small town. Everything changes when a fight at school leads to suspension from school and a new friendship with Henry.

What changes? Is it when he starts participating in gym? Is it when the county declares his father an unfit parent and places Tobin with a foster family? Nope. It’s all about the chickens he and Henry start raising.

Here’s a quick, funny read from the author of Dovey Coe.

–High School Only–
16 year-old Anna tells about the aftermath of a tragic accident that kills her brother’s girlfriend, Cameron, and seriously injures her best friend, Ellen. Anna was driving and throughout the book she slowly and painfully comes to terms with her guilt and accepts the fact that she may have been driving the car, but she is not Cameron’s killer.

Available in the HS media center and at Herrick. Frank is the author of Life is Funny, America, and Friction.