The book was popular enough to be adapted in a 2014 movie version starring Chloe Moretz.

If I Stay is the rare late-2000s young adult bestseller that doesn't deal with supernatural creatures, deadly sporting events, or weird dystopias, but it does tackle real life-or-death questions with a slightly supernatural twist. Where did Mia went? Er… where did she go? Well, you'll have to read that one to see what happens after the end of If I Stay. Can you guess which one? It's Where She Went. One of the titles we listed is a sequel to If I Stay. All of her books feature romance, melodrama, and kissing. Gayle Forman has half a dozen similarly named books, like I Was Here, Where She Went, and Just One Day. She's like Patrick Swayze in Ghost, but without the pottery-making skills. Her body is in a coma, but she is able to leave her body and see how her friends and family deal with the aftermath. Guys, we said snow angels, not real angels.

It tells the story of Mia, a girl whose entire family is wiped out in a horrible car accident. Written by Gayle Forman, If I Stay was published in 2009. But when Mia gets a snow day in If I Stay-say this next part in your best Hollywood movie trailer voice-It. It gives you a whole twenty-four hours of free time to build snowmen, sled down hills, and make snow angels.

'I know you'd hate that kind of thing.' Intensely moving, the novel will force readers to take stock of their lives and the people and things that make them worth living.

If you die, there's going to be one of those cheesy Princess Diana memorials at school,' prays Mia's friend Kim. Mia's singular perspective (which will recall Alice Sebold's adult novel, The Lovely Bones) also allows for powerful portraits of her friends and family as they cope: 'Please don't die. Via Mia's thoughts and flashbacks, Forman (Sisters in Sanity) expertly explores the teenager's life, her passion for classical music and her strong relationships with her family, friends and boyfriend, Adam. As she ponders her state ('Am I dead? I actually have to ask myself this'), Mia is whisked away to a hospital, where, her body in a coma, she reflects on the past and tries to decide whether to fight to live. Then she is standing outside her body beside their mangled Buick and her parents' corpses, watching herself and her little brother being tended by paramedics. The last normal moment that Mia, a talented cellist, can remember is being in the car with her family.

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