Illicit behavior.īased on this, Looking for Alaska sounds like a pretty great young adult book, right? But it's also a novel about the meaning of love, the power of grief, hope, and redemption… which means it's dealing with pretty major-and pretty universal-life stuff, too. Think about and work through some really important issues.Unrequited love.
That’s a shame because John Green helps teens They loved it and think it would be great for older teens but that their I have seen teachers’ comments about this book that I think by the age of older teens, even censorship by parents becomesĬounter-productive) but not OK for others to decide that a book should be keptįrom an entire community. Reasonable for parents to decide what their kids are mature enough for (though
As IĮxplained in my Banned Books Week intro post, I believe it is perfectly And let's face it: if a teen isn't drinking or smoking or having sex yet, then reading about it in a novel isn't going to suddenly transform him or her into a delinquent - reading isn't going to change their core values. Teens should see characters like themselves in books. With (or at least wondered about) all of those things – I know I did at thatĪge – and it doesn’t make sense to keep them from reading a book that delves soĭeeply into the meaning of life and other important issues that teens are also
I think most older teens have experimented It does contain all of those things, but I don’tĪgree it’s unsuitable for teens. Sexually explicit, unsuited to age group.” Well, yeah, that pretty much covers According to the ALA, it has been banned for: “Drugs/alcohol/smoking, Banned: Looking for Alaska was #7 on the ALA’s list of Most FrequentlyBanned Books in 2013 and is likely to appear on the list again this year or next,Īs the movie production moves forward (the book has already begun climbing back
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