Blog posts tagged with 'John Green'

Summer Reads for Kids, Teens & young adults

As recommended by Lovekidsbooks

Katie the Kitten Rhyming Stories, Alex Scheffler

(Early Learning)

Katie's a kitten with sleek shiny fur She has sparkly eyes and a lovely deep purr. Lizzy's a lamb

who loves to have fun She plays in the fields and skips in the sun. Katie the Kitten and Lizzy the

Lamb are two playful creatures that love to dance and skip through the day!

My First Gruffalo Little Library, Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler

(Baby & Toddler)

From the Gruffalo baby and toddler series featuring all your favourite characters from the deep

dark wood. Learn about colours, numbers, opposites and animals with this fabulous set of four

bold, bright board books in a miniature slipcase. A perfect gift for young Gruffalo fans! Great for

taking on holidays or for travelling.

The Brilliant World of Tom Gates, Liz Pichon

(Ages 8 upwards)

Tom Gates is the master of excuses for late homework: dog attacks, spilt water ­ lightning..Tom' s

exercise book is full of his doodles, cartoons and thoughts,as well as comments from his long-
suffering teacher, Mr Fullerton. After gaining five merits for his CAMPING SUCKS holiday story,

Tom's work starts to go downhill which is a pity, as he's desperate to impress Amy Porter, who

sits next to him...

There are eight books in this series, enough to cover the whole summer for enhusiastic readers or

rainy days!

The Twits, Roald Dahl

(Ages 8 upwards)

Fantastic story by the No.1 Childrens author Roald Dahl. Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so

the Muggle­Wump monkeys and the Roly­Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the

ghastly surprise they deserve! Lovekidsbooks recommends all of the Roald Dahl Books, amazing

stories for children to get lost in their imaginations.

The Secret Seven Collection, Enid Blyton

(Ages 9-­12)

Kids who enjoy adventures or dreaming up adventures will love these books. Peter, Janet and

Jack, Barbara, Pam, Colin and George, together they are The Secret Seven ­ ready to solve any

mystery, any time! In their first adventure and the Secret Seven super­sleuths are already on the trail

of a mystery! The gang are dressed in disguise, following a lead to a spooky old house in the snow...

Paper Towns, John Green

(Teenage Fiction)

Quentin has always loved Margo Roth Spiegelman, for Margo (and her adventures) are the stuff of

legend at their high school. So when she one day climbs through his window and summons him on an

all­night road trip of revenge he cannot help but follow. But the next day Margo doesnt come to school

and a week later she is still missing. Q soon learns that there are clues in her disappearance . . . and

they are for him. But as he gets deeper into the mystery ­ culminating in another awesome road trip

across America ­ he becomes less sure of who and what he is looking for. This is a thoughtful,

insightful and hilarious coming­of­age story.

Girl Online, Zoe Sugg

(Young adult fiction)

The incredible debut novel from YouTube phenomenon Zoe Sugg aka Zoella.I have this dream

that secretly all teenage girls feel exactly like me. And maybe one day when we realize that we all

feel the same we can all stop pretending we're something we're not... But until that day I'm going

to keep it real on this blog and keep it unreal in real life.Penny has a secret. Under the alias Girl

Online Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship boys high school drama her crazy family

and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse her

family whisks her away to New York where she meets Noah a gorgeous guitar­strumming

American. Suddenly Penny is falling in love ­ and capturing every moment of it on her blog.But

Noah has a secret too one that threatens to ruin Penny's cover ­ and her closest friendship ­

forever.

The Fault in Our Stars Latest by John Green

The story is about Hazel a 16 year old teenager who has been sick and terminal with Cancer, her parents insists she attends Cancer for kids support group. While there she meets a guy, Augustus who is there to support his friend Isaac who has cancer and has had to have an eye removed. Augustus himself had a leg amputated but is now cancer free.

Hazel and Augustus get talking, there is a spark between them; they discuss their favourite books and decide to read each other’s favourite novels before meeting up again.

 Hazel and Augustus become good friends they both like each other a lot, they are plotting how to find out what happens to one of the characters mothers in Hazels favourite book and Augustus has been in touch with the author and is trying to organise a trip so that Hazel meets the author in person and will find out what happens the mother. But as she is deliberating she has a serious episode and she is taken to ICU.

After she gets home she finds out that Augustus never left the waiting room the whole time she was in ICU and they decide to go to meet this author with the support of one of the doctors.

While on this trip romance blossoms, they share a kiss and things go from there. While they are away Augustus confides in Hazel that he had a body scan recently and his cancer has returned and spread everywhere.

They return home to Indianapolis where his condition deteriorates and his form isn’t what it used to be and he is vulnerable and scared but Hazel still loves him as before.

Augustus plans a pre funeral for himself in his final days and Hazel and Isaac give eulogies, she says how much she loves him and how she wouldn’t trade any of the short time they have had together for anything in the world.

Augustus dies 8 days later and at his funeral as requested by Augustus is the author of the novel Hazel was looking for answers from.

This book is beautifully written, a friendship and relationship between two teenagers with a different outlook on life. The fault in our stars is an amazing book, beautiful and heart breaking at the same time. It’s not easy to read about sick children who are dying but the story between to two characters Hazel and Augustus is beautiful it will have you laughing and crying, and the same again.

The Fault in Our Stars is now a major movie too