John Green has written a number of successful books aimed at young adult readers. Have you read any of these? Tell your class about it. The Fault in our Stars Paper Towns Looking for Alaska Turtles All the Way Down An Abundance of Katherines Will Grayson, Will Grayson Let it Snow
John Green (1977–) is an American author and video blogger (vlogger).
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Remember! You don’t have to understand all the words in a story to enjoy it.
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This is an extract from the novel The Fault in our Stars. Hazel is sixteen years old. She has been ill with cancer for about two years. A portable oxygen tank helps her breathe. Her mother is worried because she spends most of her time alone and depressed. Today, her mother makes her to go to a support group for teenagers with cancer where she meets a new boy, Augustus.
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I didn’t want to take the elevator because taking the elevator is a Last Days kind of activity at Support Group, so I took the stairs. I grabbed a cookie and poured some lemonade into a Dixie cup and then turned around. A boy was staring at me. I was quite sure I’d never seen him before. Long and leanly muscular, he dwarfed the molded plastic elementary school chair he was sitting in. Mahogany hair, straight and short. He looked my age, maybe a year older, and he sat with his tailbone against the edge of the chair, his posture aggressively poor, one hand half in a pocket of dark jeans. I looked away, suddenly conscious of my myriad insufficiencies. I was wearing old jeans, which had once been tight but now sagged in weird places, and a yellow T-shirt
