Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
I loved this book! I picked it up from the "Soon to be/Already are movies" table at my bookstore. I didn't know much about it, and I thought "Why not?" On the cover, it says that it is compared to The Fault in Our Stars, but honestly, the only similarity I can see is that both books have a girl with cancer in them. Seriously, that is where the similarity ends.
This book is funny. Greg, the narrator, is a bit crude, but it's funny. It's even funnier when you add Earl to the mix. The things they say...... holy cow.
In a nutshell, Greg is a senior in high school. A girl he knew from Hebrew school has been diagnosed with leukemia, and Greg's mother talks him into spending time with her. He tries to cheer her up, and sometimes it works. Greg and Earl make movies, bad movies. As it turns out, the dying girl, Rachel, loves their movies.
The book is mostly about Greg's misadventures, but there are some sad, sweet moments too. I highly recommend this one.
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