Paper Towns Paper Towns is a novel written by John Green. This book was published by Penguin Random House Company in New York. This book takes place in the town of Orlando, Florida which is the hometown to the main characters as well as the author. The novel is about graduating high school students who go to Jefferson High. They go on a road trip later on which ends up setting the story in Agloe, New York. Agloe is actually a paper town, which means it is only a “town” visible on maps to be a “copyright trap”. As John Green puts it, “The meaning of paper towns is this weird cartographic phenomena wherein mapmakers will insert fake places called copyright traps or paper towns onto their maps to make sure no one is copying their maps.”
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