Hazel Grace Lancaster

Hazel Grace Lancaster is the main character and narrator of the novel. She is a sixteen-year-old girl. Hazel is also living with cancer. While the doctors have been able to remove the cancer from Hazel's body, her lungs are damaged. Because of the lung damage, Hazel is not expected to live a full life, and she has to wheel around an oxygen tank.

Hazel's parents took her out of high school three years before the novel starts. Hazel earned her GED and is now attending classes at the local community college. She also attends a cancer survivor support group at a local church. Hazel has a couple of friends she still stays in contact with, such as Kaitlyn, but mostly Hazel thinks of her parents as her best friends.

Prior to getting sick, Hazel dated one boy. One day at a support group meeting she meets...