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“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”

- John Green
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The Fault in Our Stars Directed by Josh Boone

John Green's best-selling novel about a romance between two terminally ill teens comes to the big screen

The Fault in our Stars (2014) is director Josh Boone’s adaptation of the 2012 novel of the same name. On one hand, the book is a story of first love between witty teenagers Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Augustus (Ansel Elgort). … Continue reading

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Looking for Alaska by John Green

John Green explores the consuming nature of grief in his debut young adult fiction novel

Looking for Alaska is a wonderfully beautiful tragedy. In it, we follow Miles “Pudge” Halter as he is sent away from his hometown in Florida to boarding school in Culver Creek, Alabama in a scenario that seems to parallel author … Continue reading

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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The young adult novel that takes on death, love and loss

The Fault in Our Stars is about as YA as it gets — the snarky attitudes, teen love dramas and arguments with parents all scream young adult fiction. The only thing differentiating this book from so many others is its … Continue reading

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