- Fiction, Coming of age, Missing persons, Mystery and detective stories
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- John Green
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 367
- Publisher
- Intrínseca, Penguin Young Readers Group, BUR Biblioteca Univerzale Rizzoli
- Editions
- 51
- Language
- vie, Polish, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9780525478188
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“They way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.”
John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. Starting in 2007, John and his brother Hank were the hosts of a popular internet blog, "Brotherhood 2.0," (aka [vlogbrothers](https://www.youtube.com/@vlogbrothers)) where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except for weekends and holidays.
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