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One of the best things about belonging to your library are the worlds you can explore through the books found there. This week, your library will celebrate the fiction you can find there with book discussions on the work of John Green. These discussions will be led by different teachers and Mr. Kotek, so check out what the titles are about and pick a discussion group to join. We'll end the week by having an evening Skype session with John Green in the auditorium. See all the details below!!

=Who Is John Green? =

 John Green is the New York Times bestselling author of // Looking for Alaska //, // An Abundance of Katherines // , and // Paper Towns //. He is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of // Will Grayson, Will Grayson //. He was 2006 recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award, a 2009 Edgar Award winner, and has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Green’s books have been published in more than a dozen languages.

=What Has He Written? =

Check out the publisher descriptions of John Green's work. Then, once you're completely sucked in to wanting to read them, scroll down to the bottom of this page and sign up one of our teacher discussions on the novels. You can also sign up for the live Skype session with John Green.


 * //Paper Towns //**



Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back 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.


 * //An Abundance of Katherines //**



When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washedup child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun-but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.


 * //Looking for Alaska //**



Miles "Pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more (Fran ois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . . After. Nothing is ever the same.


 * //The Fault in Our Stars //**



Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.

Check out the trailer for //The Fault in Our Stars//.

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=Join Us for Discussions on John Green's Novels from April 10th-12th: =

Each discussion group is limited to a maximum of 15 participants so sign up soon. The registration password for each event is "c**adottlibrary2012**". Once you have your reservation and your ticket, show it to Mr. Kotek in the library to pick up a copy of the novel so you can join your discussion group starting April 10th.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Paper Towns Discussion with Mr. Rothbauer

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">An Abundance of Katherines Discussion with Mrs. Weir

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Looking for Alaska Discussion with Mrs. Martinson

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Fault in Our Stars Discussion with Mr. Kotek

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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Join us for a live Skype session with John Green on April 12th at 6:30 PM in the high school auditorium. This event is limited to 100 participants, so bring your friends and your parents to hear what Mr. Green has to say about the inspiration for his novels, the writing process, and have all of your questions about his novels answered. The password to register for the event is "**cadottlibrary2012**".

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Skype Session with John Green