Writing style
Conversational · Direct · Lyrical
Apple BooksIf I Stay
Literary fiction
- First published
- 2009
- Print length
- 201 pagesDutton Children's Books, 2009
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mia Hall is an aspiring concert cellist living with her family in Portland, Oregon. On a snowy day, a car crash kills her parents and leaves her severely injured. While Mia lies in a coma, she experiences events from an out-of-body perspective, moving unseen through the hospital as relatives, friends, and other loved ones gather. Flashbacks return to her family life, her devotion to the cello, her relationship with Adam, and her persistent sense of not fitting in. Caught between life and death, Mia faces a choice: remain with Adam and her surviving relatives or join the family members she has lost.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Variable
Tone
Hopeful · Intimate · Melancholic · Reflective
Structure
Nonlinear
Focus
Character · Relationships · Voice
Emotional intensity
5 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 2 / 5
- Structure
- 3 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Dutton Children's Books
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780525421030
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