基本信息
書名：Paper Towns紙鎮

難度：Lexile藍思閱讀指數850

作者：John Green
齣版社名稱：Speak
齣版時間：2009
語種：英文
ISBN：9780142414934
商品尺寸：13.7 x 2.2 x 20.9cm
包裝：平裝
頁數：330

編輯推薦
Paper Towns《紙鎮》的作者約翰·格林常年占據《紐約時報》暢銷青年小說傢榜首位置。該小說獲得瞭2009年的愛倫坡奬，十大青年暢銷書榜單中常年名列前茅，深受全世界青少年的青睞。既是一本青春愛情小說，又是一本懸疑推理故事。冒險情節環環相扣，人物塑造豐滿細膩。適閤喜歡小說又想要提高英語水平的學生和成人閱讀。
推薦理由：
1.把青少年愛情和冒險故事相結閤，題材新穎，牽動人心；
2.語言簡潔，難度不大，讀者可在休閑閱讀的同時積纍英語的地道用法；
3.小說附Discussion Questions“討論問題”4頁，啓發讀者閱讀後反思，有助於充分理解；
4.大開本，版麵舒適，印刷精美，字體較大，閱讀感舒適；
5.輕型紙印刷，便於隨身攜帶，隨時隨地閱讀。

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

內容簡介
昆汀從小就單戀勇敢漂亮的鄰居瑪戈，但兩人多年的校園生活卻是天差地彆，沒機會好好交流。一天夜裏，瑪戈突然潛入昆汀的房間，要求他協助報復她的花心男友，昆汀也乖乖答應。
通宵冒險結束後 ，瑪戈離奇失蹤，她的傢人和警察都認為這是她的一個小玩笑，隻有昆汀察覺齣其中異樣。根據瑪戈昨夜的反常舉動與她刻意留下的蛛絲馬跡，昆汀與他的朋友開始瞭尋找瑪戈的旅程。一張惠特曼的詩歌殘片、一段網站上的留言，綫索零碎又環環相扣。昆汀發現他越接近目的地，越對自己的發小感到陌生……
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...

作者簡介
John Green約翰?格林，《紐約時報》暢銷書作傢，曾獲美國圖書館協會普利茲奬、年度青少年文學圖書、普利茲奬銀奬、埃德加愛倫坡奬，入圍《洛杉磯時報》圖書奬。約翰格林的每部作品都會榮登《紐約時報》暢銷榜，且常年雄踞前三名。約翰格林與他的兄弟漢剋也是世界上非常受歡迎的博客網站之一“播客兄弟”（youtube.logbrothers）的創辦者。讀者可以加入約翰?格林的twitter粉絲群（@realjohngreen）和tumblr (fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.)或訪問他的個人網，領略格林的無上魅力。
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.

精彩書摘
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.