#2ndaryELA Twitter Chat Topic: Independent Reading.On My Bookshelf: Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg.Connecting with the Holocaust: Making it Personal.#2ndaryELA Twitter Chat Topic: Cross-Curricular Le.Students could choose another character, one from another novel or one of their own creation, and plan out who that character would want to take revenge upon and how they would do it. The revenge plot at the beginning of the novel would make an interesting writing exercise. Quentin's two best buds, Ben and Radar, are fabulously nerdy but hilarious and endlessly supportive of Quentin's quest to find Margo, including a highly unrealistic road trip the night of their senior graduation.Ĭlassroom application: It's worth adding to your middle or high school classroom library your girls, hopeless romantics, and nerdy boys will like it. Like The Abundance of Katherines, also by John Green, this novel depicts wonderful boy friendships. She is selfish and only the detective investigating her disappearance seems to see that. She gives no thought to her family or friends' feelings when she disappears right before high school graduation.

While Margo's parents are painted as the 'bad guys' for saying enough with her shenanigans and changing their locks, for me Margo is the unattractive character. There's even the possibility that the clues will lead Quentin to her dead body. The dead fish, spray paint, and Vaseline are all thought out and executed perfectly.īut then Margo disappears, leaving a series of clues for Quentin to find her, only they might not be clues and she doesn't seem to want to be found.

Margo finds out that one of her boyfriend is cheating on her with one of her best friends so she recruits Quentin, her next door neighbor and childhood friend to help her exact her revenge. Why I liked it: The first part of the book is awesome. Printz Medalist John Green returns with the trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty that have inspired a new generation of readers. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q. Margo’s always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she’s always planned solo. Basic plot from Amazon: When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night-dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge-he follows her.

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