The fault in our stars

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Label

The fault in our stars

Statement of responsibility

John Green

Creator

• trueGreen, John, 1977-

Author

• trueGreen, John, 1977-

Subject

• trueLove stories
• trueTeenagers with depression
• Terminally ill -- Juvenile fiction
• trueRealistic fiction
• Young adult fiction
• trueIndiana
• trueSixteen-year-old girls
• Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
• trueIndianapolis, Indiana
• Terminally ill children -- Juvenile fiction
• Young women -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
• trueTeenagers with terminal illnesses
• Love stories
• trueTeenage romance
• trueGroup psychotherapy
• trueTeenagers with cancer
• Cancer -- Patients -- Juvenile fiction
• trueTeenage boy/girl relations
• Physicians -- Juvenile fiction
• Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
• Cancer in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction
• Youth -- Death -- Juvenile fiction
• trueTeenage girls
• trueNetherlands
• Love -- Fiction
• trueBooks to movies
• trueAuthors
• Cancer -- Fiction
• Terminally ill -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueRealistic fiction
• Young adult fiction
• trueBooks to movies
• trueLove stories

Language

eng

Summary

Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life

Theme

• trueLiving while dying

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueBittersweet
• trueMoving
• trueEmotionally intense

Writing style

• trueBanter-filled

Character

• trueWell-developed
• trueIntrospective
• trueAbility diverse

Award

• Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award, 2014.
• Blue Hen Book Award (Delaware) for Teen Books, 2014.
• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2012
• Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland), High School, 2014.
• Buckeye Teen Book Award (Ohio), Grades 9-12, 2014.
• California Young Reader Medal, Young Adult, 2015.
• Colorado Blue Spruce YA Book Award, 2016.
• Garden State Teen Book Award (New Jersey), Fiction (Grades 9-12), 2015.
• Gateway Readers Award (Missouri), 2015.
• Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers, 2014.
• Goodreads Choice Award, 2012.
• Golden Archer Awards (Wisconsin): Middle/Jr. High, 2015.
• Indies' Choice Book Awards, Young Adult, 2013.
• Inky Awards (Australia): Silver Inky, 2012.
• Keystone to Reading Book Award (Pennsylvania), High School level, 2014.
• Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, Young Adult, 2013.
• Rhode Island Teen Book Award, 2014.
• Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, 2012.
• Sequoyah Book Awards (Oklahoma), High School Books, 2015.
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2012.
• Soaring Eagle Book Award (Wyoming), 2015.
• Thumbs Up! Award (Michigan), 2012.
• Virginia Readers' Choice Award for High School, 2014.
• West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA), Older Readers, 2013.
• Westchester Fiction Award, 2013.
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2013.
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2015.
• Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest), Senior, 2015.

Cataloging source

NSB

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

• PS3607.R432928
• PZ7.G8233

LC item number

• F38 2014
• Fau 2014

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

850

Literary form

novels

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 9
• 12

Target audience

adolescent