<DIV><DIV></div> <br> 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>Miles "Pudge" Halter is abandoning his safe-okay, <I>boring</I>-life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps."<br> Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring. Their nucleus is razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska, who has perfected the arts of pranking and evading school rules. Pudge falls impossibly in love. When tragedy strikes the close-knit group, it is only in coming face-to-face with death that Pudge discovers the value of living and loving unconditionally.<br> John Green's stunning debut marks the arrival of a stand-out new voice in young adult fiction.<BR><BR></DIV>