Literary Awards - Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2005), Michael L. Printz Award (2006), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2007), Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award Nominee (2006), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Jugendbuch (2008), The Inky Awards for Silver Inky (2007), Lincoln Award Nominee (2009), Bronzener Lufti (2007), Green Mountain Book Award (2008), The Inky Awards Shortlist for Silver Inky (2007), Alabama Author Award for Young Adult (2006), Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera independiente (2014).

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.