John Green, Author . Dutton $15.99 (221p) ISBN 978-0-525-47506-4
This ambitious first novel introduces 16-year-old Miles Halter, whose hobby is memorizing famous people's last words. When he chucks his boring existence in Florida to begin this chronicle of his first year at an Alabama boarding school, he...
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John Green, Author . Dutton $16.99 (227p) ISBN 978-0-525-47688-7
Green follows his debut novel, Looking for Alaska
, with this comic story about Colin Singleton, who at 17, considers himself a failure. "Formerly a prodigy. Formerly full of potential. Currently full of shit," he thinks, when, on graduation
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John Green, Author . Dutton $17.99 (305p) ISBN 978-0-525-47818-8
Green melds elements from his Looking for Alaska
and An Abundance of Katherines—
the impossibly sophisticated but unattainable girl, and a life-altering road trip—for another teen-pleasing read. Weeks before graduating from their...
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John Green. Dutton, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-47881-2
If there's a knock on John Green (and it's more of a light tap considering he's been recognized twice by the Printz committee) it's that he keeps writing the same book: nerdy guy in unrequited love with impossibly gorgeous girl, add road trip. His...
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John Green. Dutton, $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-55536-0
Like many of Green's characters, Aza Holmes is whip smart, articulate, and tortured by worry. When she was eight, her father succumbed to a heart attack while mowing the lawn. Now 16, Aza takes meds (irregularly) to treat anxiety, which is...
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John Green, Author, Jeff Woodman, Read by , read by Jeff Woodman. Brilliance Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-2444-7
Green's young adult novel debut won him many admirers in its 2005 print incarnation, and that success is likely to be repeated with this admirable audio version—impeccably read by Jeff Woodman, a veteran actor with more than 200 audiobooks
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John Green, Author, Jeff Woodman, Read by , read by Jeff Woodman. Brilliance Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-2450-8
Though Woodman did a strong job on the audio version of Green's Looking for Alaska
(see above), the author's second young adult novel proves to be more of a challenge. This follow-up is looser and less traditionally structured, more in the...
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John Green, Author, David Levithan, Author . Dutton $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-42158-0
In alternating chapters, the authors track two teens, both named Will Grayson, who accidentally meet halfway through the novel, perhaps changing the trajectory of both of their lives. One Will is vintage Green: a smart nerd whose rules to live by...
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Book Wish Foundation. Putnam, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-25454-3
Short stories that revolve around wishes form this volume created to raise money for Book Wish Foundation, a nonprofit organization working to build libraries for Darfur refugees living in Chad. Mixing poems, stories, and even a comic, the book...
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John Green, read by Kate Rudd. Listening Library, unabridged, 7 CDs, 7 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-525-59102-3
Voice actor Rudd sensitively portrays the protagonist of Green’s latest novel, Aza Holmes, a 16-year-old with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Aza’s mind is constantly crowded with anxiety and intrusive thoughts about germs and infection, which makes...
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John Green. Dutton, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-55521-6
YA novelist Green (Turtles All the Way Down) makes his adult debut with this perfectly calibrated collection that reviews and rates various aspects of the current epoch. Taking on the style of a Yelp review, Green assigns a five-star rating to each...
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