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Gayle Forman's If I Stay
The book I choose to read is If I Stay by Gayle Forman. If I stay is a book full of twist and turns and shocking events. The main characters are Mia Hall, Adam, and Kat. After a tragic car accident it tells the out of body experience of Mia Hall. The book If I Stay was published in 2009.
Mia is the only one in the family that lives after the accident. Through this out of body experience she can see all the action going on around and what they are doing to her. Mai is faced with the decision of whether she wants to live or die with the rest of her family. In the book it shows flashbacks of some stuff that has happened in her past. One the it flashes back is the first date that her and her boyfriend Adam went on. Adam got tickets to go see yoyo mama play which is a cello concert. Mia Hall loved classical music which was odd for her family because they all like rock bands. Adam loved Mia so much and would do anything to keep her.
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Also Mias aunt came and saw her and her best friend Kat. To me Kat encouraged her most by telling Mia that she still had a family no matter what. That there were still people that loved her and didn’t want to see her go. The thing that made her decide to stay was when Adam snuck into her room and started playing classical music in her ears and then pulled out his guitar and started playing her a song that he wrote for her. At that moment she knew she still had a family and that they loved she and she made the decision to

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