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John Green has won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award for his extraordinary first novel, Looking for Alaska, published by Dutton Books, a member of Penguin Group, USA, Inc.
Green, who seems as self-deprecatingly funny and engaging a person as he is a writer, reports his reaction to the news on his Web site (www .sparksflyup.com): "Holy crap! I won?! Are you sure?"
Looking for Alaska tells the story of sixteenyear-old Miles "Pudge" Halter who heads off to seek what he calls his "Great Perhaps" at an Alabama boarding school, where new-found freedom, guilty pleasures, and an enigmatic girl named Alaska hurl him into life. First-time author Green writes with intimacy, humor, and insight about a world where...