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