Cover to Cover
And In Bewteen the Lines
By Katy, Lauren, Aria, and Rya
Gayle Forman Books
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If I Stay
Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.
I open my eyes wide now.
I sit up as much as I can.
And I listen.
Stay, he says.
Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?
Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters.
If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make.
Just One Day
Allyson Healey's life is exactly like her suitcase—packed, planned, ordered. Then on the last day of her three-week post-graduation European tour, she meets Willem. A free-spirited, roving actor, Willem is everything she’s not, and when he invites her to abandon her plans and come to Paris with him, Allyson says yes. This uncharacteristic decision leads to a day of risk and romance, liberation and intimacy: 24 hours that will transform Allyson’s life.
A book about love, heartbreak, travel, identity, and the “accidents” of fate, Just One Day shows us how sometimes in order to get found, you first have to get lost. . . and how often the people we are seeking are much closer than we know.
Where She Went
It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.
Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future - and each other.Told from Adam's point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.
Just One Year
When he opens his eyes, Willem doesn’t know where in the world he is—Prague or Dubrovnik or back in Amsterdam. All he knows is that he is once again alone, and that he needs to find a girl named Lulu. They shared one magical day in Paris, and something about that day—that girl—makes Willem wonder if they aren’t fated to be together. He travels all over the world, from Mexico to India, hoping to reconnect with her. But as months go by and Lulu remains elusive, Willem starts to question if the hand of fate is as strong as he’d thought. . . .
The romantic, emotional companion to Just One Day, this is a story of the choices we make and the accidents that happen—and the happiness we can find when the two intersect
I Was Here
Cody and Meg were inseparable.
Two peas in a pod.
Until . . . they weren’t anymore.
When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, who broke Meg’s heart. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets thrown into question.
I Was Here is Gayle Forman at her finest, a taut, emotional, and ultimately redemptive story about redefining the meaning of family and finding a way to move forward even in the face of unspeakable loss.
Reviews
If I Stay
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Lauren's Review: 5 stars
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This is another book like The Fault In Our Stars that if you describe the plot, sounds alright but nothing wonderful. The amazing writing, however, makes both books fantastic. I loved the main character in this book. She had such a strong personality. Her family in general was described so well that you could see them.
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Rya's Review: 4.5 stars
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This book is sad. There is no other way to put it. This book is about a girl who has to decide if she wants to live her life without her family and stay alive, or if she wants to continue on to another life with her parents and brother who died in a car crash. I cried so many times when reading this book becuase Mia's boyfriend, Adam is telling Mia to stay, and her relatives are telling Mia to stay, but Mia doesn't know if she can live her life without her parents anymore. This book is about figuring out who you are and what you want in your life. I loved this book, but I don't think I would ever read another book like this again in my life...it was too sad.
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Where She Went
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Lauren's Review: 5 stars
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The pain!!! Most of this book was very emotionally draining and I almost cried. For most of the book you think that you can predict the ending, and I was prepared to hate Gayle Forman. The ending was amazing, however, and I'm so happy right now. :)
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Rya's Review: 4.5 stars
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This book is sweet. Adam and Mis get back to together for one night only after being apart for several months living their seperate dreams. Adam is miserable without Mia and we are not really sure how Mia feels without Adam. This story is a getting back together story and it is perfect. I read this book so many times becuase it was so good. When they get back together, everything in the universe clicks into place...or so it feels. This book gives me the feeling that maybe I could have a love story like this today, but for now, I'll have to settle for reading about these stories.
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Just One Day
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Aria’s Review: 4 stars
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First book: AMAZING!!!!!! I have traveled all over Europe so I can easily relate to the setting! The characters are so sweet and I love how realistic yet unbelievable it was-it make it so easy to fall right in step with the characters (and in love with Willem DeRuit).
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Rya's Review: 3.5 stars
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This book was so sweet and the romance was so perfet!!! I was drawn to Allison's character and I found my self hating and loving everything that she did. That is the sign of a good book with a good character, If you love romance and heartbreak and adventure and finding yourself, this book is perfect for you. My only problem was the ending, it felt very aprubt and sudden. I wanted more and I didn't want to have to wait through the second book becuase that was also torture.
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Just One Year
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Rya's Review: 2 stars
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This book is one of the most boring books I have ever read/finished. I kept wait and waiting for the romance to appear between the two main characters and it never happend. Willem has a boring life and this book just follows his boring life around as he looks for Alison. I has bored out of my mind. THERE WAS NO ROMANCE!!! UGG!!!
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I Was Here
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Rya's Review: 4.5
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This book was amazing. This is the sad, hopeful, and heart-wrenching book that every person hopes to read in their lifetime. This is a book about finding yourself, something that Gayle Forman seems to do so well. A book about a poor girl who hopes to get out of her town and make something of herself, but knows she never will have the money too. When her best friend comitts suicide, Cody goes to where her best friend, Meg was attending college to figure out the miystery surrounding Megs death. Then she gets sucked in, she starts becoming Meg and thinking about suicide and before she knows it, she's depressed and she's comparing her sucky life to her dead beast friend's old life. This book is about a girl who doesn't now what to do with her life, a sad, alond girl who finds a boy while researching her best friend's death. This is a book about love, friendship, and finding the person you were meant to be all along...even if you didn't realize she was in their.
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