[LM_NET] SEC: Book review Paper Towns by John Green

[Naomi Bates <nbates@NISDTX.ORG>]

Margo Roth Spiegelman and Quentin were nine years old when they found a dead body 
in the park.  Margo was nine when she knew her strings were broken, but Quentin 
didn’t know it yet*

     Nine years later, both of them are finishing their senior year in high school. 
 Margo’s circle of friends include Lacy, Jace, and Becca * the beautiful people.  
Quentin’s best friends are Ben, who is trolling freshmen for a prom date, and 
Radar, who is hooked on his website, Omnictionary 

     After the night of revenge, Margo doesn’t show up for school the next day, and 
people don’t seem to mind (typical Margo) but when it becomes a week, Q knows 
something is wrong.  Margo is missing and he has made it a point to find her 
following clues only Margo knows how to create.  For Margo, the fun isn’t in the 
trip, it’s in the planning.  As Q delves into the clues, he begins to worry * is 
she alive or dead?  When he finds her, will it be too late and the strings that 
hold Margo will be irrevocably cut?  Will she lose herself in a paper town or 
pseudovision like the man they found nine years ago?  

     If a cover could tell a thousand words, Paper Towns’s cover will.  John Green 
has gone from the dark side (Looking for Alaska) to the light side (Abundance of 
Katherines) and this book is a perfect melding both.  While it begins light and 
funny, it takes a turn toward the dark, and the reader will continuously be 
laughing at Q’s and friends antics while sitting on the edge of the seat waiting to 
find out what happened to Margo.  This is a definite page-turner that will involve 
from beginning to end.  


There is a more in-depth review posted on my blog.


Naomi Bates
Northwest High School Library 
Justin, Texas 
nbates@nisdtx.org
817-215-0203

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