Hollywood Ending
Turtles All the Way Down
…Turtles All the Way Down is somehow far darker [than The Fault in Our Stars], not so much because of the subject matter—though that's dark too—but because of how [Green] chooses to write about it. This novel is by far his most difficult to read. It's also his most astonishing…We spend long stretches inside Aza's […]
Paper Towns
VOYA – Molly Teague Based on the cover, I never would have picked up this book on my own because I-and I think we all secretly do-judge a book by its cover. But once I opened it, I couldn't put it down and read ninety pages in the first sitting. The book is a perfect […]
Looking For Alaska
School Library Journal Gr 9 Up From the very first page, tension fills John Green's Michael L. Printz Award-winning novel (Dutton, 2005). Miles Halter, 16, is afraid that nobody will show up at his party because he doesn't have many friends. He loves to read biographies and discover the last words attributed to famous people. […]
The Fault In Our Stars
School Library Journal Gr 9 Up—"It's not fair," complains 16-year-old Hazel from Indiana. "The world," says Gus, her new friend from her teen support group, "is not a wish-granting factory." Indeed, life is not fair; Hazel and Gus both have cancer, Hazel's terminal. Despite this, she has a burning obsession: to find out what happens […]