基本信息
书名：Paper Towns纸镇

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数850

作者：John Green
出版社名称：Speak
出版时间：2009
语种：英文
ISBN：9780142414934
商品尺寸：13.7 x 2.2 x 20.9cm
包装：平装
页数：330

编辑推荐
Paper Towns《纸镇》的作者约翰·格林常年占据《纽约时报》畅销青年小说家榜首位置。该小说获得了2009年的爱伦坡奖，十大青年畅销书榜单中常年名列前茅，深受全世界青少年的青睐。既是一本青春爱情小说，又是一本悬疑推理故事。冒险情节环环相扣，人物塑造丰满细腻。适合喜欢小说又想要提高英语水平的学生和成人阅读。
推荐理由：
1.把青少年爱情和冒险故事相结合，题材新颖，牵动人心；
2.语言简洁，难度不大，读者可在休闲阅读的同时积累英语的地道用法；
3.小说附Discussion Questions“讨论问题”4页，启发读者阅读后反思，有助于充分理解；
4.大开本，版面舒适，印刷精美，字体较大，阅读感舒适；
5.轻型纸印刷，便于随身携带，随时随地阅读。

Paper Towns debuted at #5 on the New York Times bestseller list and won the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. It is taught in many high school and college curricular, often in conjunction with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, which is an important text within the novel. The movie adaptation of Paper Towns was released in Summer 2015 starring Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne, and directed by Jake Schreier.
“Paper Towns has convinced me that jaded adult readers need to start raiding the Teen’s section at the bookstore. Green, who grew up in Orlando and uses the city as a backdrop for the story, taps into the cadence of teenage life with sharp and funny writing, but transcends age with deeper insights. ” — Rebecca Swain of Orlando Sentinel
“Green’s prose is astounding — from hilarious, hyperintellectual trash talk and shtick, to complex philosophizing, to devastating observation and truths. He nails it–exactly how a thing feels, looks, affects–page after page.” — Johanna Lewis, School Library Journal, starred review
“A powerfully great read.” — VOYA

内容简介
昆汀从小就单恋勇敢漂亮的邻居玛戈，但两人多年的校园生活却是天差地别，没机会好好交流。一天夜里，玛戈突然潜入昆汀的房间，要求他协助报复她的花心男友，昆汀也乖乖答应。
通宵冒险结束后 ，玛戈离奇失踪，她的家人和警察都认为这是她的一个小玩笑，只有昆汀察觉出其中异样。根据玛戈昨夜的反常举动与她刻意留下的蛛丝马迹，昆汀与他的朋友开始了寻找玛戈的旅程。一张惠特曼的诗歌残片、一段网站上的留言，线索零碎又环环相扣。昆汀发现他越接近目的地，越对自己的发小感到陌生……
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...

作者简介
John Green约翰?格林，《纽约时报》畅销书作家，曾获美国图书馆协会普利兹奖、年度青少年文学图书、普利兹奖银奖、埃德加爱伦坡奖，入围《洛杉矶时报》图书奖。约翰格林的每部作品都会荣登《纽约时报》畅销榜，且常年雄踞前三名。约翰格林与他的兄弟汉克也是世界上非常受欢迎的博客网站之一“播客兄弟”（youtube.logbrothers）的创办者。读者可以加入约翰?格林的twitter粉丝群（@realjohngreen）和tumblr (fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.)或访问他的个人网，领略格林的无上魅力。
John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with David Levithan), and The Fault in Our Stars. His many accolades include the Printz Medal, a Printz Honor, and the Edgar Award. He has twice been a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. John was selected by TIME magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. With his brother, Hank, John is one half of the Vlogbrothers (youtube.com/vlogbrothers), one of the most popular online video projects in the world. You can join the millions who follow John on Twitter (@johngreen) and tumblr (fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com) or visit him online at johngreenbooks.com.
John lives with his wife and son in Indianapolis, Indiana.

精彩书摘
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 Spiegelman.
Our subdivision, Jefferson Park, used to be a navy base. But then the navy didn’t need it anymore, so it returned the land to the citizens of Orlando, Florida, who decided to build a massive subdivision, because that’s what Florida does with land. My parents and Margo’s parents ended up moving next door to one another just after the first houses were built. Margo and I were two.
Before Jefferson Park was a Pleasantville, and before it was a navy base, it belonged to an actual Jefferson, this guy Dr. Jefferson Jefferson. Dr. Jefferson Jefferson has a school named after him in Orlando and also a large charitable foundation, but the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jefferson is that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made “Jefferson” his middle name, and then changed his first name to “Dr.” Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.
So Margo and I were nine. Our parents were friends, so we would sometimes play together, biking past the cul-de-sacced streets to Jefferson Park itself, the hub of our subdivision’s wheel.
I always got very nervous whenever I heard that Margo was about to show up, on account of how she was the most fantastically gorgeous creature that God had ever created. On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time.