Teacher:Kaplina Zhanna Alexandrovna 8 G

* Simultaneously tragic and hopeful, this is a romantic, riveting and ultimately uplifting story about memory, music, living, dying, loving. * Intensely moving, the novel will force readers to take stock of their lives and the people and things that make them worth living. * Original and exciting, it is a novel about relationships, life and the people involved in both. The characters are tangibly real, the plot is fascinating and will cause the pages to turn rapidly. Teens and adults will find themselves falling in love with Forman’s stunning novel.

* IF I STAY is heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. It’s a testimony to the beauty of family and friendship that moved me as a mother, as a daughter, and as friend. This novel will stay with me for a long, long time.

On a day that started like any other… * Mia had everything: a loving family, a gorgeous, adoring boyfriend, and a bright future full of music and full of choices. Then, in an instant, almost all of that is taken from her. Caught between life and death, between a happy past and an unknowable future, Mia spends one critical day contemplating the one decision she has left—the most important decision she’ll ever make

* Forman provides a compelling and highly textured account of the brutal 24 hours that may be 17-year-old Mia’s last. Mia’s recounting of this critical day is laced with insight, good humor, and wonder, allowing the reader to enter the scene as fully as Mia herself. Mia’s story will engage readers willing to suspend their disbelief that the future can be seen in the present.

* It is one of the best books we have ever read. The story is so powerful that sometimes I laughed and sometimes I cried but I simply could not stop turning the pages. * IF I STAY is one of those great rare books with a deeply authentic voice that can speak for and move a generation. Not since TWILIGHT have we seen as emotionally moving a book for a youth audience with this kind of crossover appeal.