Paper Towns

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Paper Towns

by John Green

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Speigelmen (Prologue).

Quentin Jacobsen has been in love with his next-door neighbor, Margo Speigelman, since he was four years old. They used to hang out when they were younger, but ever since they started high school, Margo and Quentin began to drift apart, especially since Margo is part of the in crowd and Quentin, well, he isn’t. Now its two weeks before the end of their senior year and Quentin is ready to move on. That’s until the night that Margo cracks open his window and climbs back into his life. You see, Margo has an elaborate scheme of revenge planned—she recently discovered that her boyfriend is cheating on her with her best friend—and she needs Quentin’s help to execute it.

So, they spend the entire night together driving around town, delivering rotten fish, taking blackmail photos, breaking into SeaWorld, you know, the like.

The next day before school, Quentin can’t help but feel like things have changed between him and Margo, back to the way things used to be.

But, when he gets to school, Margo isn’t there. She doesn’t come the next day, or the next. In fact, next thing he knows Quentin is being questioned by the police and finds out that they suspect Margo has run away again. And this time, she has left a trail of clues meant only for him to follow.