It is a novel that has no life lesson to be learned.” It covers adult themes … that most students have not been exposed to and should not be provided by the school. “As a whole this book’s content is not appropriate for middle school, or we believe, even high school students. They also rejected the offer that the library restrict the book from just their daughter.

The parents claimed the book included a “graphic sex scene, underage drinking, and date rape” and stated that it was inappropriate for middle and high schoolers. The novel then follows Allyson, as she processes the consequences of that one day, and as she goes off to her first year of college.

There she meets an actor named Willem, and the first half of the book details the one day affair they have together in Paris. The novel tells the story of Allyson, a girl who travels to Europe in the summer after high school graduation. In 2015, parents of a sixth grader at Rosemount Middle School in Minnesota, challenged the presence of the 2013 novel Just One Day in the district’s libraries. Ultimately, Forman’s stories weave together the often painful process of finding out who you are and learning how to be that person, even as important relationships come in and out of your life.Īs is common with young adult books that deal with mature themes, not everyone appreciates these novels being labeled as YA. Forman has gone on to write several more YA books that deal with complex and mature themes, such as sex, suicide, and death of a family member. If I Stay went on to be made into a movie in 2014, starring Chloë Grace Moretz. The book catapulted her into the spotlight, earning a spot on the top of the New York Times Bestsellers List, and winning the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) award in 2009 and the Indies Choice Book Award in 2010.

She began writing novels when she was 34, and published the award winning If I Stay in 2009. Though she says she’s been a writer since she could form her letters, she began her formal writing career as a journalist for Seventeen magazine, then moved on to freelancing for several other major magazine titles. Moore CC BY-SA 4.0 )įorman was born on Jin Los Angeles, California. Gayle Forman at the 2016 Texas Book Festival ( Larry D. She is best known for her award winning book, If I Stay. Today is Gayle Forman’s 52nd birthday! Forman is the bestselling young adult author of 11 novels and several anthology contributions.

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