Landry Bender

Faced with the destruction of her town at the hands of a greedy mining company, a high school teacher utilizes an obscure cartographic loophole to declare independence and lead a young group of misfits as they attempt to start their own country from scratch.

Looking for Alaska thrusts us into the perspective of Miles "Pudge" Halter who 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.

During a school science class experiment, students Cyd and Shelby become unstuck in time, and end up bouncing back and forth between the past and the future.

14-year-old Wyatt Bernstein, the only son among four kids, finally gets his dream of having a loud-mouthed brother when his puppet, Crash, comes to life. Crash brings Wyatt some much needed "boy reinforcement" amidst a household of sisters.