<DIV><DIV></div> Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award<p> An ALA Best Book for Young Adults<p> An ALA Quick Pick<p> A Los Angeles Times 2005 Book Prize Finalist<p> A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age<p> A 2005 Booklist Editor's Choice<p> A 2005 School Library Journal Best Book of the Year<p> Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . . After. Nothing is ever the same.<BR><BR></DIV>