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" Love the Twilight books but itching to read something new? Give Gayle Forman&amp;#039;s book If I Stay a chance! It already has a Twilight movie-alum seal of approval \u2014 Twilight&amp;#039;s director Catherine Hardwicke is apparently in talks with Forman for a film adaptation of her book. If I Stay doesn&amp;#039;t have any vampires and werewolves, but it nonetheless deals with some deep issues \u2014 family, life, death, and important choices. If I Stay is all about 17-year-old Mia. She&amp;#039;s riding in a car with her parents one February morning during a snow day, and in a moment everything changes \u2014 they get in a car accident. Mia doesn&amp;#039;t remember the accident and can&amp;#039;t recall how it happened, but she can see her own injured body, and she sees friends and family watching her in the hospital waiting room. In her in-between state, Mia thinks back on the highlights of her life \u2014 her cello audition for Juilliard, her first kiss, her brother&amp;#039;s birth \u2014 and she begins to realize that she has the power to decide how her coma will end: live or die. Mia has to make the most important choice of her life.  It&amp;#039;s a powerful and intense book, and it sounds like it will be a tear-jerker in the movie theater, too. It&amp;#039;s set to hit theaters some time next year.  Will you read If I Stay? How about seeing it when it becomes a movie? Sound off! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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