It made me cry in public, forcing me to hide my tears while riding the subway to work. It seems like getting a voice just right for a teenage girl is a challenge to many readers – but this is thankfully not the case here. The reader does a beautiful job bringing us Hazel’s story and giving voice to those in her life. On the other hand, I guess lots of teens have overprotective parents, so that one isn’t specific to their health. They also do things most teens don’t – they deal with cancer and hospitals and their overprotective parents. The next thing Hazel knows she is starting to have the ‘teenage life’ her mother is always talking about.Īugustus and Hazel do lots of the things that a boy and a girl do when they are figuring out if they like each other. Enter Augustus Waters, another ‘cancer kid’. She has to tug an oxygen tank behind her everywhere she goes, even to the church basement for a Cancer Kids Support Group. Hazel is alive thanks to a miracle tumor treatment. Life is different when you are young and dying faster than the average person. Long Review: Hazel is 16 and she has cancer. Brilliant reader does justice to this amazing story. His list of books for young people include: Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances, Paper Towns, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and The Fault in Our Stars.Short Review: Heart-wrenching and uplifting roller coaster ride. They have two children, Henry and Alice, and a West Highland Terrier named 'Willy'. Green resides in Indiana with his wife of nine years, Sarah Urist Green. His work is very well-respected by other children's authors.so much so that a John Green endorsement will mean a boost in sales for that author. Green has the reputation for, 'ushering in a new golden Era for contemporary, realistic, literary teen fiction' from a time when young people's books were dominated by young wizards, sparkly vampires, and such. The Fault in Our Stars was on the New York Times Best Seller's List for children's books for two weeks, then was made into a major motion picture, using the same name, in June of 2014. After working with children suffering with life- threatening illnesses, he was inspired to write the novel instead of continuing on the previous path. After that experience combined with the bullying he suffered, John Green did not go to divinity school, but wrote The Fault in Our Stars. He spoke about being bullied and how it ruined his teenage years, but also served as assistant chaplain for five months at the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. His plan had been to get his undergraduate degree, then to work towards a Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School.

American author, John Green has followed a completely different career path than he had intended.

The fault in our stars audio book