My summer reading for 8th grade that I chose was The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It was a fictional love story. The main characters, Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace, meet each other in a cancer support group in the town of Castleton. Their friendship and support for each other turns into love and affection. Hazel’s favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, takes them to Amsterdam to meet the author Peter Van Houten. Hazel has always wondered how that book would end and what happens to the characters. The story twists when one of the two main characters gets really ill and dies and a note is sent to Mr. Van Houten asking him to write a eulogy for the other person still living. It shows that they cared for each other and wanted to leave a mark in the world by making a difference and isn’t that what we all want to do? Leave a mark? Overall, I felt the book was meant more for older teens and girls because the vocabulary was difficult and as a boy, I wasn’t too much into the romance. An okay book for summer reading.