Looking for Alaska (US)

190 Pages·2012·1.03 MB·English

by  Green John

Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements

before
after

some last words on last words
SOME QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
The prank.
Everybody was sitting on sleeping bags, Alaska smoking with flagrant disregard
for the overwhelming flammability of the structure, when the Colonel pulled out
a single piece of computer paper and read from it.
“The point of this evening’s festivities is to prove once and for all that we are
to pranking what the Weekday Warriors are to sucking. But we’ll also have the
opportunity to make life unpleasant for the Eagle, which is always a welcome
pleasure. And so,” he said, pausing as if for a drumroll, “we fight tonight a battle
on three fronts:
“Front One: The pre-prank: We will, as it were, light a fire under the Eagle’s
ass.
“Front Two: Operation Baldy: Wherein Lara flies solo in a retaliatory mission
so elegant and cruel that it could only have been the brainchild of, well, me.”
“Hey!” Alaska interrupted. “It was my idea!”
“Okay, fine. It was Alaska’s idea.” He laughed. “And finally, Front Three: The
Progress Reports: We’re going to hack into the faculty computer network and
use their grading database to send out letters to Kevin et al.’s families saying that
they are failing some of their classes.”
“We are definitely going to get expelled,” I said.
“I hope you didn’t bring the Asian kid along thinking he’s a computer genius.
Because I am not,” Takumi said.
“We’re not going to get expelled, and I’m the computer genius. The rest of you
are muscle and distraction. We’re just, you know, wreaking a little havoc.”
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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
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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.
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