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The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green

Published: 2012-01-10
Kindle Edition : 318 pages
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TIME Magazine’s #1 Fiction Book of 2012

"The greatest romance story of this decade." 
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Now a Major Motion Picture
TODAY Book Club pick
TIME Magazine’s #1 Fiction Book of 2012

"The greatest romance story of this decade." 
Entertainment Weekly

-Millions of copies sold-
 
#1 New York Times Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
#1 USA Today Bestseller
#1 International Bestseller
#1 Indie Bestseller


Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars brilliantly explores the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.

Editorial Review

Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012: In The Fault in Our Stars, John Green has created a soulful novel that tackles big subjects--life, death, love--with the perfect blend of levity and heart-swelling emotion. Hazel is sixteen, with terminal cancer, when she meets Augustus at her kids-with-cancer support group. The two are kindred spirits, sharing an irreverent sense of humor and immense charm, and watching them fall in love even as they face universal questions of the human condition--How will I be remembered? Does my life, and will my death, have meaning?--has a raw honesty that is deeply moving. --Seira Wilson

Excerpt

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. ... view entire excerpt...

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How did each set of parents react to their child's illness?
Did their parenting styles change?
by jemathomp (see profile) 04/25/14

What did you think about Hazel calling calling herself a side effect.
did you feel the teenagers rang true.
Was this a book about cancer?
by rnns1999 (see profile) 01/11/14

How would you feel as the parent of one of these children?
by Daryl (see profile) 11/27/13

Hazel felt let ldown by the ending to her favorite book. Did John Green's ending make you wonder about what would happen next?
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