Does it remind me of another book? How so?

Looking for Alaska actually reminds me of another novel written by John Green called 'Paper Towns'. Paper Towns is about a boy named Quentin Jacobsen who has been in love with his childhood friend and neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman for as long as he can remember. Margo shows up in Quentin's window asking for his help of course he cannot refuse her and they spend an all-nighter together performing eleven pranks on people who have wronged her but the next day she's missing from school so him and his friends go on a road trip to find her and bring her home dead or alive. The similarities between the two novels are that both Margo and Alaska are very mysterious and adventurous girls who have been neglected from their parental figures, Pudge and Quentin are both very sweet and innocent boys who each fall in love with a very closed off, emotionally unattainable and mysterious girl. In Looking for Alaska when Alaska dies Pudge and their friends make it their mission to find out what happened to her and whether or she had committed suicide and in Paper Towns when Margo runs away (not the first time) Quentin and his friends make it their mission to find her. Quentin's friends start to believe it's a lost cause and that she's probably dead possibly from committing suicide but he doesn't listen and they set out on a road trip to find her either dead or alive. The last similarity of the two novels is that in Looking for Alaska John Green split the book into two section being, Before and After. In Paper Towns he John didn't split the book into sections but he did something kind of similar by starting off the book by writing in the past tense then switching to present tense. The books are very different in the larger sense of the storylines and in details but when it comes to certain details like the ones I mentioned they are very similar. -Jessica