https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7 John Green en-us 2019-01-23 18:42:55 UTC 2024-10-14 23:36:16 UTC hello@padlet.com mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332032193 John Green, born in 1977, is a young adult author who debuted his first novel, Looking for Alaska, in 2005. John is one of two sons to Mike and Sydney Green growing up primarily in Orlando, Florida. John says he always wanted to be a writer but didn't realize his dream could be a reality until after graduating with his BA from Kenyon College and working for the company Booklist Magazine. He shares while working there "it slowly dawned on [him] that each of those books [reviewed every two weeks at Booklist] were written by someone and [he] started to feel like maybe [he] could be one of those someones" (Green). John is married with two children of his own. He not only has authored several books, such as Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns, he and his brother, Hank, are the creators of Crash Course, a YouTube sensation, teaching anyone who watches History, Literature, Economics and much more! ]]> 2019-02-16 19:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332032193 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332035861 American author, vlogger, producer & educator]]> 2019-02-16 20:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332035861 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332036642 Green, John. Looking for Alaska: A novel. New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2005.

With a lack of friends and being tired of his life in Florida Miles “Pudge” Halter sets out to reinvent himself his junior year of high school by going to his father's alma mater Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama. Miles soon is introduced to his new roommate, The Colonel aka Chip Martin who portrays himself as all knowing of campus rules, formality and popularity. While there Miles becomes enamored with a wild, yet intriguing, cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking gorgeous girl, Alaska. He soon learns Alaska has a boyfriend that doesn't go to the boarding school and he tries his hand at dating another of their friends, Lara. This relationship ultimately doesn't work out. Takumi is an Asian American friend of the group who at one point Pudge and The Colonel cut out because he kept a secret from them. Shenanigans at the boarding school keep the story interesting and a real page turner. Pudge, The Colonel, Alaska, Takumi and Lara become a close knit crew bonding over rule breaking, studying and pranks. Tragedy occurs when Alaska dies in a car accident and the friends struggle to make sense of it, shutting each other out dealing with grief in their own way, finally coming together to piece together pieces of that fatal night.]]> 2019-02-16 20:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332036642 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332037632 Green, John. An abundance of Katherines. New York: Speak, 2012.

Just as the title suggests, the main character, Colin Singleton has has his fair share of Katherines. Colin was a child prodigy learning to read when he was just two, loves anagrams and knows eighteen languages and has been left heart broken by nineteen Katherines! This is a story takes the readers on an adventure filled and humorous road trip with Colin and his best friend Hasan, who happens to be Colin's exact opposite, with the hopes of forgetting about his latest Katherine dump. Their road trip leads to a town called Gutshot where they meet Lindsey who makes a great addition to this duo. While in Gutshot Lindsey's mom, Hollis, gives the trio a job to interview the people in the town to learn of it's history and the local tampon factory. During the process of their interviews the group finds out that there is a steady decline in tampon sales and in order to combat the loss of work for the townspeople Lindsey's mom, Hollis is damaging the string to the tampons so that the factory will have to keep the workers employed. All the while Hassan makes a love connection in town with a girl named Katrina, and Lindsey already has a local boyfriend named Colin. Soon the trio learn that Katrina and Gutshot Colin are romantic on the sly, in return Hassan and Lindsey dump them both. Lindsey and Colin Singleton get closer as the story unfolds and become an item, all the while Singleton is working on a new mathematic equation for love. He thinks he's cracked the code and can use it to predict how long his relationship with Lindsey will last, the equation and theory never gets proven in this instance as the trio drive off to find more adventure in the closing scene of the novel.]]> 2019-02-16 20:31:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332037632 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332038413 Michael L. Printz Award
2006 - Looking for Alaska

Michael L. Printz Honor Award
2007 - An Abundance of Katherines

Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery
2009 - Paper Towns

Stonewall Book Awards
2011 - Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Goodreads Choice Awards Best Yound Adult Novel
2012 - The Fault in Our Stars

Goodreads Choice Awards Best Memoir & Autobiography
2014 - This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

Shorty Award for Best Author
2011 & 2013 - realjohngreen]]> 2019-02-16 20:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332038413 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332039243 Green, John. The fault in our stars. S.L.: Penguin Books- Group USA, 2014.

The Fault In Our Stars is a YA novel by John Green about two teens who find one another through a depressing commonallity, cancer. The main character is Hazel Lancaster, a 16 year old girl who has terminal cancer. Hazel was diagnosed at 13 with thyroid cancer that has now spread to her lungs, making an oxygen tank her forever companion. With much protest and pleading by her mother she goes to a cancer support group where she meets Augustus Waters, who happens to be there supporting a mutual friend, Isaac, who has had his eye removed because of a cancerous tumor. Hazel learns that Augustus has had osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, and had to have his leg amputated, and is now in remission. Hazel and Augustus become very close due to their shared experience with cancer. The pair share dreams, hopes, and favorite authors. Augustus makes it his mission to fulfill Hazel's dream of meeting her favorite author Peter Van Houton. Through a cancer wish progam Augustus and Hazel are able to travel to Amsterdam to meet Van Houton. The author is not what Hazel had hoped leaving her very disappointed.  While in Amsterdam their love flourishes and then Augustus reveals to Hazel his cancer is back. 

The story leads the reader on an emotional ride with these two characters, the highs of love and friendship, the lows of sadness and disappoint expertly woven throughout this novel.

Goodreads gave The Fault in Our Stars the 2012 Choice Award.

"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" (Goodreads).

 

]]> 2019-02-16 20:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332039243 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332039262 Green, John, and David Levithan. Will Grayson, Will Grayson. New York: Speak, 2010.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson is a young adult novel cowritten by John Green and David Levithan. The book is told from the point of view of two teenage boys, both named Will Grayson. In Evanston, the first Will Grayson is best friends with Tiny Cooper, a homosexual football player, who happens to be writing a musical, Tiny Dancer. The other Will Grayson, a homosexual from Naperville that suffers from depression, tells the second story. While the story is told from each Will Grayson's point of view the novel is ultimately about Tiny.

Evanston Will Grayson and his friends, Tiny and Jane, go into the city for a concert, but Will isn't allowed in with his fake ID. While his friends are in the concert he walks around and finds himself in Frenchy's a porn shop where he runs into Naperville Will Grayson, who went to Frenchy's in hopes of meeting his online crush, Isaac, but instead has been catfished by his school friend Maura. Love interests blooms when Tiny is introduced to Naperville Will Grayson, however the relationship ultimately doesn't last. Tiny forges on with his musical production and Naperville Will shows up to give support and tell Tiny just how amazing he is. ]]> 2019-02-16 20:50:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332039262 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332040569 John Green's 2012 YA novel The Fault in Our Stars was brought to the big screen by Fox 2000 Pictures, Temple Hill Entertainment, and TSG Entertainment in 2014. The movie is directed by Josh Boone winning several awards including the 2014 Teen Choice Awards in the following categories: Drama, Chemistry, Breakout Star, Movie Scene Stealer and Liplock. This movie as of date has internationally grossed $307,239,013. ]]> 2019-02-16 21:09:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332040569 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332041671 www.johngreenbooks.com]]> 2019-02-16 21:25:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332041671 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332042751 A common theme of John Green's novels are the transition from childhood to adulthood, the proverbial "coming of age". Whether the reader experiences a character's first crush, first kiss, or more, Green's characters are trying to come to terms with who they are and what they want to be, all while trying to answer the big questions about life and love and friendship. John Green brings back fond memories for older readers and fresh memories for younger ones. Characters dabble with foul language, drugs and alcohol and the day to day woes of trying to figure out their place of in-between, no longer a kid but not quite an adullt.]]> 2019-02-16 21:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332042751 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332042760 On a more personal note as a teacher of English Literature in an alternative high school setting I prefer using John Green's novels as text to fulfill the many book study units required by our English Department in order to fulfill the diploma and graduation requirements. In my career as an English teacher I have used the five books that I have showcased, Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, Will Grayson, Will Grayson and The Fault in Our Stars. I have the luxury and leeway in my position to use the books for the sole purpose of connecting my students with texts they can relate to and have real world conversations about. While researching John Green I was amazed to find the many institutions that have "challenged" (and on the verge of "banned") novel  Looking for Alaska in their curriculum or summer reading due to offensive language and sexually explicit descriptions. My personal bias is that Green's novel should be used in high school curriculum giving a score of 50% school use and 100% pleasure. I dropped to 50% for school use because I do believe parents should have the right to know that books their children will be reading may include violence, offensive language, sexually explicit descriptions and references to mental health issues that could lead to suicide, yet I hold my 50% to say that teachers shouldn't discount using Green's novels to address said issues, have courageous conversations about, and allow their students to connect with characters based upon shared experiences. Because Green's novels delve into the psyche of teenage lives and controversial subject matter (language included) I believe teens would find any one of these titles to be read 100% for pleasure.]]> 2019-02-16 21:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332042760 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332043529 Fox 2000 Pictures, Temple Hill Entertainment, and TSG Entertainment found an overwhelming amount of success in their movie adaptaton of John Green's The Fault in our Stars that they decided to do it again with John Green's 2008 YA novel Paper Towns in 2015. The movie is directed by Jake Shreier winning several awards including the 2015 Teen Choice Awards in the following categories: Female Summer Movie Star, Movie Breakout Star and Movie of the Summer. This movie as of date has internationally grossed  $85,512,300. ]]> 2019-02-16 21:53:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332043529 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332043556 Streaming television network Hulu will air an eight episode series based on John Green's YA novel, Looking for Alaska. The series isn't set to air until 2020, starring Charlie Plummer as Pudge and Kristine Froseth as Alaska. In 2005 Paramount Pictures bought the film rights from Green and has been on and off in production ever since. Finally in 2016 it was announced that Paramount Television will produce the series that will air via the streaming service Hulu. Hear if from John himself about the 13 years it took to bring Looking for Alaska from pen to reel.]]> 2019-02-16 21:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332043556 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332057546 Green, John. Paper towns. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.

John Green's novel Paper Towns begins with a prologue set nine years before, in which Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman stumble upon a decomposing body in a Florida park. The book is broken out into three parts. Part one, Margo and Quentin have grown apart, no longer friends, and are seniors in high school. Margo comes to Quentin seeking his help in getting revenge against her friends since she found out her best friend was sleeping with her boyfriend. Part two begins with the next day at school after Margo's revenge seeking night and Quentin is anxious to see her. Margo doesn't come to school which worries Quentin that perhaps what they've done has caused Margo harm and now she's missing. Lucky for Quentin Margo has left clues that engulf the entirity of Part Two's chapters. Quentin enlists his best friends Ben and Radar to help him solve the case of "Missing Margo". High school graduation draws near and on the morning of Quentin discovers a clue as to Margo's whereabouts leading into Part Three of the book. Part Three is in hour format. In the course of twenty one hours Quentin sets out on a road trip with his newly aquired graduation gift, a minivan, and four friends to find Margo. They drive and drink beers from Florida to New York until they eventually spot Margo's car in the parking lot of Agloe General Store. ]]> 2019-02-17 01:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332057546 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332059251 Except for The Fault in Our Stars the protagonist and narrator of John Green novels are male. They are very similar in that they all seem to be awkward in some way or another and seem to have a fascination with others that they deem to be cooler than they are. The protagonist always ultimately has failed relationships or finds a love interest in which the relationship fails, choosing the wrong girl at some point or another in their lives. These young men work hard to fit in and often find themselves in precarious situations.]]> 2019-02-17 02:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332059251 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332059895 One interesting theme of John Green's novels are the road trip extravaganza's and travel by the protagonist. In Looking for Alaska Miles Halter aka Pudge leaves his home in Florida hoping to reinvent himself at Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama. In An Abundance of Katherines Colin sets out for a road trip leaving Chicago with his best friend Hassan after graduation to try and escape his latest dumping by yet another Katherine and winds up in Gutshot, Tennessee. The theme continues in The Fault in Our Stars with main characters Hazel and Augustus traveling to Amsterdam in search of Hazel's beloved author, Peter Van Houton. In Will Grayson, Will Grayson the two travel from Naperville and Evanston into the big city of Chicago. Finally, in Green's Paper Towns the protagonist Quentin Jacobsen and his four friends take his newly aquired graduation gift, a minivan, on a desperate road trip from Florida to New York in the search for Margo.]]> 2019-02-17 02:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332059895 mleeper1 https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332064116 John Green has established himself as a YA writer, which in the literary world can mean a target audience of people grades 7 through 12, however, based on the complexity of topics Green uses in his novels my suggested age range would be that of grades 9 through 12. For instance in Looking for Alaska characters are cursing, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and suicide is the unspoken finality. In The Fault in Our Stars the characters are facing the immortality and reality of cancer. I don't restrict my opinion of age range to only grades 9 through 12, I believe that all his novels are ones that people older than 18 will find relatable and can gleen life lessons from. His stories will bring older readers to a point of recalling the good old days, or saying to themselves, "I remember when.." I truly believe that reading his novels can help those of us many years removed from the adolescent era by reminding us of what it's like to be in that transitional stage of life.]]> 2019-02-17 03:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mleeper1/zom6d71lm7b7/wish/332064116