Speak</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>The critically acclaimed?? bestselling novel from Gayle Forman?? author of?<u>Where She Went</u>???<u>Just One Day</u>?? and?<u>Just One Year</u>.</b><br>?<br><b>Soon to be a major motion picture?? starring Chloe Moretz!</b><br>?<br>In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen ??year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall what happened afterwards?? watching her own damaged body being taken from the wreck. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces- to figure out what she has lost?? what she has left?? and the very difficult choice she must make. Heartwrenchingly beautiful?? this will change the way you look at life?? love?? and family. Now a major motion picture starring Chloe Grace Moretz?? Mia's story will stay with you for a long?? long time.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br><span class="n Interview with Gayle Forman </strong></span> <br/>    <p><img align="left" border="0" src=" https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/PENGN-EMS/Gayle_Forman_Aplus.jpg"/>     <b>Q: You started your career as a journalist and your first book is a travelogue about going around the world. Is YA literature a departure for you?</b></p>      <p> Gayle Forman: Actually its more of a homecoming. My first writing job was at Seventeen where I spent five years on staff and as a contributor reporting the magazines social-issues stories. I loved writing for teens then becausecontrary to popular opinionthey really care about serious issues (from child soldiers in Africa to kids embroiled in the drug war here) and the engage in their reading with such passion. So now that Im writing young-adult literature it feels like Ive come full circle. </p>        <p><b>Q:  This book explores some serious themes. Why is this a book for kids and not adults?</b>      <p> GF: Its a book for kids precisely because it explores serious themes. Teenagers are grappling with choices about life and love as much as adults so why shouldnt their reading reflect that? I dont set out to write YA. It just seems like Im drawn to stories about young people. That said I think If I Stay is for adults too. I love the idea of teens reading this book and then handing it off to their parents. </p>        <p><b>Q:  Many key characters are serious musicians?? and songs are referenced throughout the book. Are you a musician?</b></p>    <p> GF: No. Except for piano lessons when I was a kid and a brief spate of guitar playing in my teens??