Paper Towns John Green

John Green is the bestselling author of Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and The Fault in our Stars. Green is also the coauthor of Will Grayson, Will Grayson with David Levithan. His books have been written in over twelve different languages and distributed around the world. Green’s Paper Towns and The Fault in our Stars have been turned into movies. The Fault in Our Stars was released in June of 2014 and Paper Towns will be released in July of 2015. John Green is also known for his videoblogs he posts with his brother Hank. The brothers started posting videos in 2007 after they decided to stop textual communications and only talk through their videoblogs. These videos led to the creation of a community of people who call themselves nerd fighters who have raised money for poverty and planted trees in May 2010 for Hank’s birthday. John and Hank continue to upload two videos a week and still have a following of the nerd fighters.

Green’s novel Paper Towns, hit number five on the New York Times bestseller list and won the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. Quentin Jacobsen has always adored his neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman. She is full of adventure and mystery, so when she comes to Quentin for help with her plot for revenge, he can’t help but follow. After their night of fun and revenge, Q gets to school to find Margo has become an even bigger mystery. Margo has left behind clues and Q discovers that they are for him. But the closer Q gets to solving the mystery that is Margo, the less he finds of the girl he thought he knew. The Paper Towns movie will be released on July 24, 2015. The movie will star Nat Wolff as Quentin Jacobsen and Cara Delevingne as Margo Roth Spiegelman. The movie will also include Halston Sage, Cara Buono, Austin Abrams, Meg Crosbie, and Justice Smith.

 Paper Towns is a book with characters that are alive and relatable to many different types of readers. It is a book that teaches us that you can follow or chase someone across a country but in the end, your fantasies may not become real. Green can make his readers laugh one minute and then they will be crying the next. Paper Towns takes readers on an adventure and shows that a quest for your true self may be just what you might need.