Before I FallWhat if you only had one day to live . . . .. Nominated for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2011, category Preis der Jugendlichen

High school senior Samantha and her three best friends live a charmed life. They are pretty, popular, and the kind of Queen Bees who canand doexert an untenable amount of power over their peers. Then Samantha dies in a car crash on her way home from a party. But thats just the beginning, because Sam doesnt really die. Instead, she lives the day of her death seven times over, until she discovers that the way to save herself might be to save someone else. Equal parts love story, mystery, and riveting slice-of-teenage life, this is a high-concept literary novel about life and death, transgression and redemption. Impossible to put down, BEFORE I FALL will take your breath away with its power, honesty, and raw emotionality. Lauren Oliver is an extraordinary new voice in teen fiction.