Framingham 6th Grader's Video Finalist for Boys & Girls Club National Contest

Framingham sixth grade student Ariana Lourie made a video for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America Make Good Reads Happen Contest, after reading the national best selling book Fault In Our Stars by author John Green this summer.

The book was one Lourie’s assigned summer reading books by the Christa McAuliffe Charter School in Framingham.

The book is about a girl named Hazel, who has cancer. She meets a boy in a support group, named Gus. They fall in love and in the end Gus dies.

Lourie was not a fan of Green’s ending in the book, which has sold more than 10 million copies, spent 78 straight weeks on the Young Adult chart and was made into a blockbuster movie.

So, the now sixth grade student at the Framingham-based charter school, decided to make a video and change the ending of the book.

“I like happy endings, so in my version, Gus lives because of a miracle medicine,” Lourie wrote on the national Boys & Girls Club of America contest page. “His cancer is gone, and he proposes to Hazel.”

Now, Lourie’s video is one of three finalists, from all of the Boys and Girl Clubs of America, for the contest.

For Lourie to win, she needs lots of votes. Framingham residents, over age 12, can vote for her video at www.bgca.org/makegoodreadshappen until Friday, Oct. 24 at 3 p.m. Eastern time.

View her video at: http://makegoodreadshappen612.hscampaigns.com