If I Stay NYT Best Seller

Forman, G. (2009). If I stay: A novel. New York: Dutton Books.

A seventeen year old girl named Mia is a very talented cellist. She has everything she could ever want, a loving family, an adoring boyfriend, an amazing best friend, and an amazing career ahead of her in music. All of that changes suddenly as she goes on a day trip with her family. As they are driving a truck hits the families’ car killing both parents and seriously injuring her and her brother, Teddy. Mia believes she is dead as she has an outer body experience observing the crash and everything around her. At the hospital Mia comes out of surgery and placed in the ICU where her grandparents, friends, and boyfriend Adam visit. As she watched everything around her she tried to determine whether she will stay in this world and suffer the pain of not having her family or go with her family who has died. Ultimately she realizes what could be ahead and decides to live. At the end of the story she decides to stay and it leads to the next story.

A fantastic follow up book to If I Stay would be Where She Went.  If you want to know what happens after Mia stays read Where She Went that is told from Mia's old boyfriend, Adam's, point of view on where they are now. Also another good book would be The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder a fiction about the collapse of a bridge in Peru. This book should be for high school students.
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