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5 Movies You Should Watch From 2014

These are just a few of the until a fraternity moves next Her mother Frannie encour- movies that you should door to them. With the par- ages her to go to a cancer watch that came out this ties the fraternity are having support group against her year. These are personally almost every night, a rivalry will. However, when Hazel some of my favorites from is created when the young meets the eighteen year-old this year but I got recom- couple decides they will do Gus, who lost part of one leg mendations from other anything to take the frater- from cancer but apparently people on what their favorite nity down. is cured, they fall in love. movies were as well. So if Hazel introduces her favor- you haven’t seen these mov- ite novel to Gus and says ies, you should get to it. that she dreams on having a conversation with the au- thor, Van Houten, who lives in Amsterdam. Gus con- tacts him and Van Houten invites them to visit him in Amsterdam. They travel to the Netherlands with Fran- nie where Hazel will learn that things are not like they seem.

The Fault in Our Stars (Dra- ma, Romance) Neighbors (Comedy) Stars; Shailene Woodly, An- Stars; Zac Efron, Seth Ro- sel Elgort, Nat Wolff gen, Rose Byrne Plot: The seventeen year-old Plot: A young couple are Hazel Grace has lung can- having the time of their life cer and needs to carry and with their newborn child oxygen tank everywhere. only one lead on who it is, Maze that surrounds their living 5 Movies You someone with a tattoo. Schmidt space. They have begun to give Should Watch and Jenko’s relationship is tested up hope. Then the first girl ever when Jenko is brought back arrives with a strange note, and From 2014 on the cool side while Schmidt their world begins to change. Cont; hangs out with a girl named Maya. At the same time they must decide if they can keep their relationship together as friends, or as cops.

22 Jump Street (Com- edy) Guardians of the Galaxy (Ac- The Maze Runner (Action, Sci- tion, Adventure, Sci-Fi) Fi, Mystery) Stars; Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube Stars; Chris Pratt, Bradley Coo- Stars; Dylan O’ Brian, Kaya per, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana Scodelario, Will Poulter Plot: After one of Schmidt and Jenko’s Plot: After discovering a mys- Plot: Thomas wakes up in an missions go wrong, terious orb in another part of elevator, remembering nothing they are sent back to the galaxy, Peter Quill from but his own name. He emerges Jump Street to do the Earth, is now the main target into a world of teen boys who exact same thing, go of a manhunt led by the geno- have learned to survive in a undercover and find cidal villain Ronan the Accuser. completely enclosed environ- out who is selling a Being hunted across the galaxy, ment, subsisting on their own new synthetic drug. Quill gets lumped together with agriculture and supplies. A new But this time they are a group of misfits that need to boy arrives every 30 days. The sent to college to inves- learn how to get along original group has been in “The tigate the drug known before they can become Glade” for two years, trying to as ‘Whyphy’ and have the “Guardians of the find a way to escape through the Galaxy”. critical decision of her life - wake up Paper Towns By John Green By Ashely Estes to live a life more difficult than she Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime ever could have imagined, or slip loving the magnificently adventurous away and die. Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So Top Seven when she cracks open a window and Books 2014 climbs back into his life–dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an for Young ingenious campaign of revenge–he Adults follows.

Looking for a good book? Read the plots and see what you like. There might be some you know, some may be new.

The Fault In Our Stars By John Green

The Fault In Our Stars is a fabulous book about a young teenage girl who has been diagnosed with lung cancer and attends a cancer support group. Where She Went By Gayle Forman

Hazel is 16 and is reluctant to go It’s been three years since the devas- tating accident . . . three years since If I Stay By Gayle Forman to the support group, but she soon realizes that it was a good idea. Hazel Mia walked out of Adam’s life forever. Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Mia is a very gifted cel- meets a young boy named Augustus Juilliard’s rising star and Adam is list. She has everything she Waters. He is charming and witty. LA tabloid fodder, thanks could ever want, a loving Augustus has had osteosarcoma, a to his new rock family, an adoring boy- rare form of bone cancer, but has star status friend, an amazing best recently had the all clear. and ce- friend, and an amazing ca- leb- rity reer ahead of her in music. Hazel and Augustus embark on a girl- All of that changes sudden- roller coaster ride of emotions, in- friend. ly. Mia and her family have cluding love, sadness and romance, When a terrible car accident and while searching for the author of Adam gets stuck in Mia is rushed to the ICU. their favorite book. They travel to New York by himself, Mia is caught between life Amsterdam in search of Peter Van chance brings the couple together and death, and watches as Houten the author of An Imperial again, for one last night. As they family and friends come to Affliction. While on their trip Augus- explore the city that has visit her at the hospital she tus breaks some heartbreaking news become Mia’s home, Adam is in. Soon Mia realizes that to Hazel and both of their worlds fall and Mia revisit the past and she must make the most apart around them. open their hearts to the future–and indeed she does, but her story soon descends into much Top Seven Books 2014 murkier waters, eyeing its teenage protagonist with a twisted smile and a tragic sense of the pain wrought by for Young Adults Cont. selfish, self-absorbed adolescents. each other. Told from Adam’s point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.

Eleanor and Park By Rainbow Rowell

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits - smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate Looking For Alaska By John Green enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remem- ber your own first love - and just how hard it pulled you Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last under. words–and tired of his safe life at home. By Stella Lawrewnce He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, 5 Notable Deaths in screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull 2014 Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. Robin Williams

We Were Liars By E. Lockhart Robin Williams was born on July 21, 1951 in “June of the summer I was 15, my father ran off with some woman he loved more than us.” Chicago, Illinois. Williams was a well-known Cadence Sinclair, the teenage narrator of We actor. People recently discovered that Williams Were Liars, initially seems very familiar: quirky, dealt with depression. He hid his mental illness perky, sentimental and charming, blessed with with his quirky and eccentric behavior. an unusual name and a neat turn of phrase, Williams was known for Ms. Doubtfire, surely she’s going to lead us on a tale of unre- Aladdin, Hook, Dead Poets Society, and quited love studded with witty one-liners. And Jumanji. He died on Aug. 11, 2014 due 1919. Seeger was an American folk singer and to suicide caused by asphyxia. an activist. He was known for being in the band The Weavers. He died on January 27, 2014 at the Philip Seymour Hoffman age of 94. He died of natural causes while in the hospital. Philip Seymour Hoffman was born on By Lily Castrellon July 23, 1967 in Rochester, New York, U.S. Hoffman was known for starring in Capote, Doubt, Charlie Wilson’s War, and The Master. Hoffman’s death has What makes you, you? been controversial because recently he Most students in high school may say your starred in the blockbuster hit Mock- clothes, money, what you drive to school in every ingjay. Many fans are wondering how day, or even what you eat is what makes you who they’re going to complete the movie you are. The fact is though those aren’t really without him. Hoffman died on February what make you who you are. Yes, granted, those 2, 2014 at the age of 46 of an accidental are part of who you are but that’s not the biggest heroin overdose. part. The big part of who you are is what you be- lieve in and your personality, and in high school Shirley Temple there will be people who don’t like you because of that. They might pick on you for that because Shirley Temple was born on April 23, you aren’t like them, you’re different but truly 1928. For decades, Temple was known as different isn’t a bad thing. It’s who you are and a beloved child star. She starred in popu- everyone is different and that’s good. People are lar hits such as The Little Princess, Fort like snowflakes, they are not exactly the same but Apache, and Heidi. She died on Febru- all equally beautiful and amazing. Throughout ary 10, 2014. The cause of death chronic high school people will try to change you into obstructive pulmonary disease. Temple something that you’re not, try to get you to do was a lifelong smoker, but hid it from the stuff that you don’t want to do. It’s important that public. you remember to stay strong and be who you are. Don’t do anything you don’t want. Do what Bob Hoskins you want, be an independent person, don’t follow people. Just be you. Stand up for what you believe Bob Hoskins was born on October 26, in, for what’s right. 1942 in Bury St. Edmunds, West Suffolk, England. Hoskins was an actor known By Rebecca Neumann for starring in Who Framed Roger Rab- bit, Hook, Brazil, and Enemy at the Gates. He died on April 29, 2014 at the age of 71 of pneumonia.

Peter Seeger Peter “Pete” Seeger was born on May 3,