Looking for Alaska, the first novel by John Green, won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a Printz honor book. Along with his brother Hank, Green started a video blog called Brotherhood 2.0, which has grown into a vibrant internet community of nerdfighters. A starred School Library Journal review of Green’s latest book, the New York Times Best Seller Paper Towns, finds, Green’s prose is astounding: from hilarious, hyperintellectual trash talk and shtick, to complex philosophizing, to devastating observation and truths. www.sparksflyup.com

Recorded on April 17th as part of the Field Family Teen Author Series