By John Green
Read in 9th Grade
Hazel Grace Lancaster is a 16-year-old girl with lung cancer. She attends a support group for cancer kids, but only because she wants to appease her mother. Hazel generally considers it a waste of time - until she meets Augustus Waters. He once had cancer in his leg, which had to be amputated. Now, he is at the support group with his soon to be blind friend, Isaac, who has eye cancer. Hazel looks remarkably like his dead girlfriend, Caroline Mathers. He immediately asks her out, and by the end of the night, they have exchanged books. Her favorite book is An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten, narrated by a girl named Anna, who has cancer.
