Next Section Paper Towns Summary Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Cohen, Madeline. He, Radar, Lacey, and Ben skip graduation together and drive twenty-one hours in Quentin’s minivan to upstate New York. He also realizes that she is planning to leave Agloe the next day. Nat Wolff (who also starred in the film adaptation of Green's The Fault in Our Stars) plays Quentin and supermodel Cara Delevingne plays Margo Roth Spiegelman. On the morning of his high school graduation, a series of chance discoveries lead Quentin to realizes that Margo has gone to the town of Agloe, New York. John Green is the award-winning, 1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and Turtles All the Way Down. While Paper Towns received largely positive reviews, it was criticized for its sexual content and even removed from the summer reading list of Dr John Long Middle School in Pasco County, Florida (though it was returned to the list the next month).Ī film adaptation of Paper Towns was released on July 24, 2015. In 2009, it won the Edgar Award for Best Adult Mystery. Paper Towns became the #5 bestselling novel in the New York Times. Paper towns, as they are referred to in the book, are fake towns that cartographers add to maps as a copyright trap. The inspiration for Paper Towns came from a road trip Green took during college, in which he discovered his own 'paper town' called Holen, South Dakota. It is compared to his 2005 novel Looking for Alaskadue to their common themes of adolescence and first love. It deals with similar elements of his previous works, including the presence of a beautiful yet eccentric female and a gawky, uncertain male.

Paper Townsis John Green's third novel, published in 2008.

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