Paper Towns

Now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault In Our Stars.Quentin Jacobsen - Q to his friends - is eighteen and has always loved the edgy Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children, they'd discovered a dead body together. Now at high school, Q's nerdy while Margo is uber-cool.One night, Q is basking in the predictable boringness of his life when Margo, dressed as a ninja, persuades him to partake in several hours of mayhem. Then she vanishes. While her family shrugs off this latest disappearance, Q follows Margo's string of elaborate clues - including a poem about death. Q's friends Radar, Ben and Lacey help with the search, and a post turns up on a website: Margo will be in a certain location for the next 24 hours only. The race is on! After an epic drivethrough the night, they catch up with Margo, and Q learns first-hand that the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.MORE PRAISE FOR PAPER TOWNS'Paper Towns is a smart, thoughtful, funny, and hopeful novel that really epitomises John Green's brilliance. It has razor-sharp wit, fantastic writing, originality in spades, truth ... do everything in your power to get a copy immediately' -- Teenbookreview'A teen-pleasing read. Readers will enjoy the edgy journey and off-road thinking' -- Publishers Weekly 'fascinating, cleverly constructed, and profoundly moving' -- School Library Journal, starred review'Green ... delivers once again ... A winning combination' -- KirkusMORE AWARDSWinner - 2009 Edgar Award

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Quentin Jacobsen e Margo Roth Spiegelman são vizinhos e amigos de infância, mas há vários anos que não convivem de perto. Agora que se reencontraram, as velhas cumplicidades são reavivadas, e Margot consegue convencer Quentin a segui-la num engenhoso esquema de vingança. Mas Margot, sempre misteriosa, desaparece inesperadamente, deixando a Quentin uma série de elaboradas pistas que ele terá de descodificar se quiser alguma vez voltar a vê-la. Mas quanto mais perto Quentin está de a encontrar, mais se apercebe de que desconhece quem é verdadeiramente a enigmática Margot.
Cidades de Papel é um romance entusiasmante, sobre a liberdade, o amor e o fim da adolescência.