If I Stay

In the story If I Stay, Mia gets school cancelled because it starts snowing. Since, they live in Oregon the amount of snow they had, their mother calls off for work, and they all plan to visit their parent's friends and their grandparents. Mia tells us how she feels different from her family, how they are trying to decide which station to listen to on the car ride over. As they are driving her favorite type of music comes on, classical. But then she hears a big bang, and she sees the car accident. She sees her dad, her mom, she then sees what she thinks is her brother, but it is her. She doesn't want to look for her brother because she's scared to see what happened, so she just stays there and listens to the classical music as it dies out to.

Sign Post; In this book, there is a memory moment. It is when Mia goes to the hospital. Her and her brother, Teddy, get separated after being in an accident. Mia goes to one in a city where her boyfriend took her on their first date. She tells us how everything went that day. How they met, how him and her parents got along. She keeps thinking about all the memories she had with each of her family members.