Paper Towns

Green, J. (2009). Paper towns. NY: Speak Penguin.

Quentin has been in love with Margo since they were little.  They came across a dead body years ago and then they stopped playing together.  The story then goes to their senior year.  Everyone is all about the Prom and he couldn't care less.  Q friends end up getting dates.  Then one night Margo shows up at this window and they go on an adventure.  They end up surprising her boyfriend at another friends house having sex.  Then they go to the bully's house and take off his eyebrow.  She then goes and puts dead fish in her best friends car for always being mean to her in a sly way.  She then convinces him to sneak into Sea World and they get home just before morning and school.  She disappears and her family is tired of looking for her and she is 18 years old after all.  So Q starts to follow clues to find her.  He figures it out right before graduation and leaves to find her in Algoe, New York and barely makes it before she leaves.  Turns out she wasn't leaving clues for him. 

I felt so sorry for Q in this story and didn't really care for how shallow and selfish Margo is in this story.  This would be a book that would be good grades 10-12. 

You can tell this is a book that is written by John Green, his style is evident in this story and how it develops.