If I Stay - Gayle Forman • BookLikes (ISBN:9781862308)

If I Stay

by: Gayle Forman (author)

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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.

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Format: paperback

ISBN: 9781862308

Publisher: Definitions

Pages no: 199

Edition language: English

Category:

Young Adult, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Death

Series: If I Stay (#1)

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Adele's Book Nook rated it

9 years ago

http://DeliMoo.booklikes.com Adele's Book Nook 4.5

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If I Stay By Gayle Forman I give ‘If I Stay’ four and a half stars. It was an emotional roller coaster of Mia’s life. Mia is the odd one in a family of punk rockers. She has recently been hospitalized because of a car accident that killed her family and she has to decide whether she wants to stay o...

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Something to Ponder rated it

9 years ago

http://marthagery.booklikes.com Something to Ponder 4.0 If I Stay

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I had seen the movie and enjoyed it. The book was a nice companion to fill in a few areas and make them more interesting. This book was like eating candy while soaking up the sun.

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A Reading Vocation rated it

9 years ago

http://laceylouwagie.booklikes.com A Reading Vocation 2.5 Book 9/100: If I Stay by Gayle Foreman (plus movie review!)

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So, this is one of those books that, like The Fault in Our Stars, I conscientiously avoided even after it gained tons of good reviews and popularity, spawned a couple sequels/companion novels, and got adapted into a movie. I finally caved and read it for my Book Club, and discovered that I was prett...

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Lost Girls Reviews rated it

9 years ago

http://LostGirls.booklikes.com Lost Girls Reviews 4.0 If I stay

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I knew going into this book that it was going to be sad. I have to be in the mood for a good tearjerker and I certainly was when I settled in to read this one. I made sure I had nowhere to go the following day just in case this book kept me up until 3 am and left me a sobbing mess unfit for the publ...

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