#TurtlesAlltheWayCountDown Read Along

By Julia Huschke | August 29 2017 | Children'sGeneral

We are super excited about the forthcoming publication of John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down! In order to properly prepare for the new book, we will be reading one of his previous books (and hosting an international giveaway!) each week leading up to the publication of Turtles All the Way Down. Please feel free to join us and our participating blogger friends on social media as we read and discuss the following books.
Week 1: Looking for Alaska (Sept 4- Sept 10)
  • Read and discuss the book/share your favorite quotes/share your photos using #TurtlesAlltheWayCountDown
  • Looking for Alaska Giveaway (open for entries Sept 4-11): Enter here
Week 2: An Abundance of Katherines (Sept 11- Sept 17)
  • Read and discuss the book/share your favorite quotes/share your photos using #TurtlesAlltheWayCountDown
  • An Abundance of Katherines Giveaway (open for entries Sept 11-18): Enter here
Week 3: Paper Towns (Sept 18- Sept 24)
  • Read and discuss the book/share your favorite quotes/share your photos using #TurtlesAlltheWayCountDown
  • Paper Towns Signed (!) Copy Giveaway (open for entries Sept 18-25): Enter here
Week 4: Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Sept 25- Oct 1)
  • Read and discuss the book/share your favorite quotes/share your photos using #TurtlesAlltheWayCountDown
  • Will Grayson, Will Grayson Giveaway (open for entries Sept 25-Oct 2): Enter here
Week 5: The Fault in Our Stars (Oct 2- Oct 8)
  • Read and discuss the book/share your favorite quotes/share your photos using #TurtlesAlltheWayCountDown
  • The Fault in Our Stars Giveaway (open for entries Oct 2-Oct 9): Enter here
Week 6: Turtles All the Way Down (Oct 10- Oct 17)
  • Hooray! A new John Green novel is HERE! Read Turtles All the Way Down and let us know what you think. Tag @PRHGlobal on Twitter and Penguin Random House International USA on Facebook.
  • Turtles All the Way Down Giveaway (open for entries Oct 10-Oct 17): Enter here
Looking for Alaska
978-0-14-240251-1
The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our StarsWinner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • TIME magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • A PBS Great American Read Selection • Millions of copies sold! First drink. First prank. First friend. First love. Last words.   Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction. Newly updated edition includes a brand-new Readers' Guide featuring a Q&A with author John Green
$12.99 US
Dec 28, 2006
Paperback
272 Pages
Penguin Books
US, Canada, Open Mkt

An Abundance of Katherines
978-0-14-241070-7
From the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our StarsMichael L. Printz Honor BookLos Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistNew York Times BestsellerWhen 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, washed-up 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.
$12.99 US
Oct 16, 2008
Paperback
272 Pages
Penguin Books
US, Canada, Open Mkt

Paper Towns
978-0-14-241493-4
From the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery #1 New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Publishers Weekly BestsellerNow a major motion picture   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. Margo’s always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she’s always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q . . . until day breaks and she has vanished. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there are clues. And they’re for Q.Printz Medalist John Green returns with the trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty that have inspired a new generation of readers.
$12.99 US
Sep 22, 2009
Paperback
336 Pages
Penguin Books
US, Canada, Open Mkt

Will Grayson, Will Grayson
978-0-14-241847-5
One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, Will Grayson crosses paths with . . . Will Grayson. Two teens with the same name, running in two very different circles, suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, and culminating in epic turns-of-heart and the most fabulous musical ever to grace the high school stage. Told in alternating voices from two YA superstars, this collaborative novel features a double helping of the heart and humor that have won them both legions of fans.
$12.99 US
Apr 05, 2011
Paperback
352 Pages
Speak
US, Canada, Open Mkt

Turtles All the Way Down
978-0-525-55536-0
The wait is over! John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars, is back.
$19.99 US
Oct 10, 2017
Hardcover
304 Pages
Dutton Books for Young Readers
US, Canada, Open Mkt

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