If I Stay

By Gayle Forman

Subjects: Cellists, Oregon, fiction, Musicians, fiction, Coma, Patients, nyt:paperback_books=2011-04-09, Young adult fiction, Hospitals, Death, Literature, Juvenile Fiction, Family life, fiction, First person narratives, Reading Level-Grade 12, Medical care, Families, New York Times bestseller, Violoncellists, Teenage girls, Reading Level-Grade 9, Coma patients, Bereavement, Death, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 8, Traffic accidents, Seventeen-year-old girls, Traffic accident victims, Fiction, Family relationships, Musicians, Children's fiction, Teenage girl coma patients, Reading Level-Grade 11, Juvenile fiction, Cello, Reading Level-Grade 10, Realistic fiction, Family life, Medical fiction

Description: *Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. Stay, he says.* Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind? Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters. If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make