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''Looking for Alaska'' is the first young adult novel by John Green, published in March 2005 by Dutton Juvenile . It tells the story of Miles, a student at Culver Creek boarding school outside of Birmingham , Alabama , who falls in love with a charismatic girl named Alaska Young. Alaska eventually dies in an apparent suicide.


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Green attended Indian Springs School , a boarding and day school outside of Birmingham, Alabama. During the time he was a student there, a popular female student died under circumstances similar to Alaska's.


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