At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog Zulkey tagged thirteen great YA novels with male protagonists, including:Looking for Alaska, by John GreenRead about another entry on the list.
It’s hard to pick which of Green’s first three books to choose from, as they all feature intelligent, quirky, sensitive males as their protagonists, but let’s go with the Printz Award–winner that kicked off the canon. It follows Miles, a lover of biographies and great last words, as he attends boarding school (in this case by choice, instead of being sent there by unfeeling parents) and tries to track down enigmatic classmate Alaska, whose existence and disappearance fascinate Miles.
--Marshal Zeringue
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