Summer Reading Book

The title of the book is called, "Paper Towns." The author's name is John Green. In the book, Margo Roth Spiegelman goes to Quentin Jacobsen's window one night at midnight since they are next door neighbors at a subdivision called Jefferson Park in Orlando, Florida. They prank and get revenge from all the fake friends and other people that hurt her. Then, sneak into SeaWorld to hang out once again. Quentin is happy to hang out with Margo since he is in love with her. But later that day, Margo disappears. His friends, Ben and Radar and Quentin then start gathering clues. One important clue they found was a highlighted poem called, "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman. This clue led Quentin to an abandoned minimall. In the minimall, he also finds a map of the U.S. He spends his last few weeks of high school trying to understand and communicate with her from the poem, but nothing yet. Until graduation day, when Quentin realizes he's seen a similar pattern of pinholes. He then makes a comparison between the map he made to try to find her to the one he found in the minimall. He realizes that the pinholes on the wall of the minimall were plotting a map. So he lines up the U.S. map to the pinholes in the minimall. He discovers she is in Agloe, New York, a fictinouos town created by mapmakers as a copyright trap. So, he searches for it on Omnictionary, and discovers someone posted a comment saying, "fyi, whoever Edits this- the Population of agloe Will actually be one until May 29th at Noon." Quentin realizes this was posted from Margo because she is the only person that capitalizes words in middle of sentences. So, Quentin and his friends skip their high school graduation to go to Agloe, NY and find Margo. When they arrive at Agloe, she is not the person they always thought they knew. Margo is mad because they had found her since she wants to know who she really is and start a new life where she will not be a paper girl anymore. So, Quentin lets her go and realizes their story was nothing but a miracle.



The theme of this book is that in life, in order to know who you really are, you have to chase your dreams and goals. Go explore and see what your mind sets you to do. You have to go on a journey or adventure to know what you want in life in order to succeed. In the book, it says, "Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself." This quote shows that if you let yourself travel, and see things you've never seen, it makes you understand yourself. Just go to the place where it makes you feel compassionate and free where your mind wants to soar. Go and discover the beautiful world and let yourself be.