However, in Kate's case it isn't enough, and Anna must give bone marrow and blood throughout her sister's life. When she's born, the cord blood is used to try to save Kate's life. When they discover their other child, Jesse, isn't a match, the doctor suggests they have a Savior Sibling, a child conceived through in vitro to be a match to the sick child. Parents Brian and Sarah discover their daughter Kate, at just two years old, has cancer and needs a bone marrow transplant. Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper is the story of the Fitzgerald family. Laurel begins to accept her sister as who she really was, a "lovely and amazing and deeply flawed" person, and finally starts foraging her own path in life. She also tells them "about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her." It isn't until Laurel writes down what happened to her that she begins to accept what happened to May. She tells them about her friends, falling in love, how her family is falling apart. However, after the assignment is finished, Laurel keeps writing to dead people: Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, and more. After being given an English assignment to write a letter to a dead person, Laurel chooses to write to Kurt Cobain because May, Laurel's sister, loved him and he died young like May did. In the novel, Laurel has already lost her sister. Trigger Warning: This list includes many difficult topics, including but not limited to the death of children, mental illness, self harm, sexual assault and rape, and hospitalization.Īva Dellaira's epistolary novel, Love Letter's to the Dead, is a very different take on the death of young people than a few of the other novels on this list. Each book deals with very serious real world issues that are difficult enough for adults to face, but unfathomable for teens. Not novel is a carbon copy of another but for case of plagiarism, but these seven books like The Fault in Our Stars are all novels that will make you fall in love with the characters, will make you feel for them. People love their heartstrings pulled every once in a while! That's likely because it does a great job at tugging on the old heartstrings. He is one of the best writers alive and I am seething with envy of his talent.' E.Do you enjoy a good cry? Then you're in the right place because this article on books like The Fault in Our Stars has plenty to choose from!īy now, John Green has quite a few books under his belt (six as of June 2019), but The Fault in Our Stars remains his most popular book. He makes me laugh and gasp at the beauty of a sentence or the twist of a tale. 'John Green writes incredible, honest truths about the secret, weird hearts of human beings. Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper and Sing You Home
' The Fault in Our Stars takes a spin on universal themes-Will I be loved? Will I be remembered? Will I leave a mark on this world?-by dramatically raising the stakes for the characters who are asking.' You laugh, you cry, and then you come back for more.' Markus Zusak, bestselling and Printz Honor-winning author of The Book Thief
'A novel of life and death and the people caught in between, The Fault in Our Stars is John Green at his best.
John Green is the best-selling author of Looking for Alaska An Abundance of Katherines Paper Towns Will Grayson, Will Grayson. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw - The Fault in Our Stars is perfect for young adults and adults alike.ĭespite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (author of Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns) is a teen romance with a twist, exploring the tragic business of being alive and in love.