Teens Can Explore John Green's Paper Towns on Thursday at Rock Island Library

Rock Island, IL: A Rock Island Public Library event for teens, ages 12 to 18, will explore John Green's best-selling teen novel, Paper Towns, just in time for the upcoming movie release.

For more information, visit the library's online branch at www.rockislandlibrary.org, call 309-732-READ, or follow the library on Facebook or Twitter.

Thursday, July 23: Paper Towns Party, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Rock Island Main Library. Celebrate the upcoming release of the movie based on John Green's bestselling book, Paper Towns, with crafts and snacks based on the film, and showings of YouTube videos by the movie's actors, and by the vlogbrothers team of John and Hank Green.

Based in a fictional suburb of Orlando, Paper Towns is the story of Quentin's search for the adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman, who disappears after involving Quentin, or "Q," on an ingenious night of revenge. Paper Towns is taught in many high school and college curriculums, often in conjunction with Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, which is an important text within the novel. (http://johngreenbooks.com/paper-towns/)

The event is free and is for teens ages 12 to 18. For more free programs, visit www.rockislandlibrary.org or pick up a summer reading brochure at the Rock Island Main Library, 30/31 or Southwest Branches.

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