John Green's PAPER TOWN is Worth Reading

PAPER TOWN is a literary Y/A novel by the best selling author John Green (The FAULT in OUR STARS.)  FAULT dealt with young star crossed lovers and paid homage to Shakespear.  PAPER TOWN is also about high school students and a seemingly unrequited love story between the femme fatale hottie and boy next door; several stratas lower on the high school social hierarchy.  Green's crafty storytelling weaves Whitman's poetry and legendary jazz & country music mostly unknown to todays'  teens  Light is also shed on the impetuous behaviors oblivious to today's parents.  Margo, is anything but your typical teen.  Besides being unbelievably gorgeous, she's an enigma whose escapades are legendary.  She also has a history of running away from home.  Margo easily persuades Quentin to be her driver on an all night mission impossible adventure.  Quentin barely gets him before he's roused for school.  At school, Quentin meets up with his 2 best buds but Margo is a no show & remains missing.  Margo is 18 and her parents fed up with her antics, change the locks on their home.  When she doesn't return days later, Quentin & his amigos go on a madcap road trip pursuing her esoteric clues in hopes of finding her.  The movie PAPER TOWN is soon to follow.  The novel pursues a lengthy trail that gets wearisome but is well worth reading for its many charms & youthful exuberance.