Quentin Jacobsen, 17, has been in love with his next-door neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman, all of his life. A leader at their Central Florida high school, she has carefully cultivated* her badass* image. Jacobsen is one of the clever kids. His parents are therapists* and he is “well adjusted*.”

    He takes a risk when Spiegelman appears at his window in the middle of the night. They drive around righting wrongs via her brilliant pranks*. Then she runs away again. Her parents and the police think this is just another one of her stunts*, but Jacobsen is not so sure, because the girl has left him a string of clues*, one right after another, which just might lead him to her. But the thing is, he’s not sure what he’ll find. He slowly finds out the depth of her unhappiness and the huge differences between the real and imagined Spiegelman.

    Author John Green’s prose is very good — from hilarious*, intellectual trash talk* to complex philosophizing*, to devastating* observation and truths. He nails it — exactly how a thing feels, looks, affects — page after page.

    The mystery of Spiegelman is fascinating, cleverly constructed, and moving. Green builds tension through both the twists* of the plot and the gravitas* of the subject.

    Jacobsen thinks deeper and harder — about the beautiful and terrifying ways we can and cannot know those we love.

    The English version is available at online bookstores like amazon.com and dangdang.com.(SD-Agencies)