Looking for Alaska

During her testimony, DeFranco compared the Georgia proposal to censorship in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

When asked by a Georgia lawmaker about concerns with a book called Looking for Alaska, which contains graphic description of oral sex, DeFranco downplayed concerns, saying that, quote, students are exposed to that kind of talk and that kind of content every day anyway, unquote.

She later admitted that this was not the, quote, best argument that I could have made, unquote.

I don't expect you to respond to all that.

speaking of you know if you've had the opportunity to kind of look on any of these websites are there any banned books or challenge books that are on your TBR something that you have your eye on

for me yes so there's a book it's called Looking for Alaska by John Green and they just recently made an HBO show about it I don't know if it's recent I just know I've been seeing it float around but I've seen this cover floating around it's like smoke Coming up, it just kind of feels like a book, obviously, that they would ban.

But it sounds very similar to Perks of Being a Wallflower.

It's a coming of age story and it follows a teenager searching for meaning in profound friendships.

Over the last two decades, several of the author's best-selling young adult novels have been adapted for the screen.

His debut, Looking for Alaska, was adapted as a Hulu limited series in 2019, the same year Netflix released the feature film adaptation of his co-authored holiday anthology, Let It Snow.

On the big screen...

Paper Towns in 2008 made its film debut in 2015, while his new bestseller The Fault in Our Stars from 2012 became a box office hit in 2014.

Picture Author John Green is best known for his best-selling young adult novels, several of which have been adapted into feature films.

He's emerging from a nine-year writing hiatus with his debut in the adult market, Hollywood Ending.

Picture Orange County School Board candidate Alicia Farenthold's copy of John Green's Looking for Alaska, which she wanted to have censored.

I'm very disturbed when other people come into that censorship conversation and try to usurp the work that teachers and librarians are doing.

A buildings roman dives into the moral and psychological growth of a character over a longer period of time.

So, something like John Green's Looking for Alaska, that book spans exactly 272 days at a boarding school, half before and half after a tragedy.

That's a coming-of-age novel.

Jane Eyre, on the other hand, follows Jane as she matures from childhood to motherhood over the course of 20 years.

So he's been doing nonfiction for the last couple years.

Then previously, of course, he was most recognizable as a young adult author for Looking for Alaska, perhaps most famously The Fault in Our Stars.

So this is his adult debut.

I think he will retain those young adult fans.