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Will Grayson-Will Grayson -John Green and David Levithan

When Will Grayson and Will Grayson meet…

This is the story of two strangers who have more in common then they thought.

Will Grayson, a straight guy who’s looking for love. He’s unsure of himself, and of everyone around him. He’s just trying to survive high school- by using a few “rules” he’s constructed- and figure out his place in the world like every other teen.

Will Grayson, a gay guy who’s looking for love. His friends have lied to him, his true love is non existent, he is very depressed and cynical. He’s just trying to survive high school and figure out his place in the world like every other teen.

Their two completely different lives will collide…

Why does everyone assume that if you’re not straight you’re wrong? Hopefully this book will change minds and teach you that love is love.

A: John Green- an amazing writer who I obviously think highly of. David Levithan- a spectacular writer who i hadn’t had much experience with before this book. Levithan gets you right into the mind of a depressed, gay teenager with trust issues and a secret loneliness he won’t admit to anyone else. John Green does the same. Both writers are very good at expressing the emotions of the characters and  did a wonderful collaboration.

Ally’s Rating:9/10

Kaitlyn’s Rating: 8.78/10  

The Fault In Our Stars- John Green

Repost, because of the awesomeness of this book.

Wow- words cannot describe how both of us feel about this book. By far the best book I have ever read- and I have read a lot of books. I literally could not put it down, and reread it often.

 This is the story of a teenage girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster. At age 13 she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and the cancer has spread to her lungs. She has never been anything but terminal, and thinks of herself as a ticking bomb- ready to explode suddenly at any moment. Her life isn’t much more than her parents, her cancer, and America’s Next Top Model- her favorite show. Her mother forces her to go to a support group for cancer, saying “Hazel, you deserve a life.” Hazel fails to see how that constitutes as a life, but goes to make her parents happy. As Hazel says in the book, “..the only thing worse from biting from cancer when you’re 16, is having a kid who bites it at 16.”

Her parents are easily her two best friends- until she meets a drop dead gorgeous boy named Augustus Waters. Augustus shows her more to life and she quickly falls for him. Both Augustus and Hazel are obsessed with this book, An Imperial Affliction, by the reclusive Peter Van Houten. The book is Hazel’s favorite, and offers no closure to the lives of the characters, as it ends in the middle of a sente

The Fault in Our Stars is not a Cancer Book- it is a book about two young kids who happen to have cancer, and how they handle the knowledge they will inevitably die and be forgotten, and to a bigger extent, the inevitability of human oblivion.

This book will have laughing on one page, and crying on the next. A mustread. I’m a huge fan of John Green, and I encourage you to be too. Learn more about him and The Fault in Our Stars on his you tube channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers?ob=0&feature=results_main

Ally’s rating: 11/10 stars.

Kaitlyn’s rating: 15000/10 stars

An Abundance of Katherines- John Green

Colin Singleton, noted child prodigy, has a type when it comes to relationships. Only his type doesn’t have anything to do with personality, or even looks. Its all about names. specifically one: Katherine. Every person he’s ever dated was named Katherine, spelled like that. And every Katherine he’s dated has dumped him. After Katherine 19, 19 heartbreaks from 19 Katherines, he decides he has to move on. So he packs his things, convinces his Judge Judy-loving best friend, Hassan, to go with him, and leaves. On a road trip going anywhere. There come across a town named Gutshot, where the Archduke Franz Ferdinand-whose death was the supposed spark of World War I- is buried. They stay with Hollis and her daughter Lindsey, who is dating- get this- a boy named Collin(nicknamed The other Colin by Hassan and Collin)Colin, being border line genius when it comes to math(though he won’t admit he is a genius), decides to come up with a formula to determine the outcome of relationships. He names it The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability. Him and Lindsey grow closer and closer… But she’s not a Katherine. But Colin is depending on the Theorem to prove he can be more than just a washed up child prodigy who reached his academic peak early… And maybe he can be a genius.

As always, we think highly of John Green as an author and you can get to know him better on his YouTube channel: vlogbrothers

Ally’s Ratings: 8/10

Kaitlyn’s Rating: 7.7/10

Looking For Alaska- John Green

Ah, yes. Another amazing book by John Green.

This book made me cry and laugh and scream and throw the book across the room- Then run to go get it.

This is the story of Miles Halter(aka Pudge.) He is done with his safe life at home. Pudge is also obsessed with famous people’s last words. He doesn’t really know why. Maybe because it tells something about how they lived, or at least how they died. A famous poet, Francois Rabelais, had the last words “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” Miles says he wants to go to boarding schools so he doesn’t “have to wait until [he dies] to start seeking a Great Perhaps.” So he moves from his town in Florida to the scorching hot Alabama. This is where he meets Alaska. Alaska, the smoking, drinking, prank-master, sometimes bitchy, and amazingly hot girl who is good friends with Pudge’s new roommate, Chip Martin(or “the Colonel”.) But as it turns out, Alaska is not the adventure loving girl everyone knows- shes hiding everything. Alaska “pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.”Alaska seems to be exactly what Pudge is looking for, but he has to work for it. The hunt is on.

Alaska seems to be searching for something, as well. One night, everything changes. Can Pudge, the Colonel, and their friend Takumi solve the mystery that is Alaska?

This book, I found very touching. It shows the way we base time on important events. It also shows an in depth look into the teenage psyche-the want to do extraordinary things, and their relationships with others. John Green’s first novel will make you frustrated and sad and ecstatically happy.

Looking for Alaska is the winner of the Micheal L. Printz Award

Ally’s Rating: 9.357/10 Stars

Kaitlyn’s Rating: 9/10 Stars