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Loading... When You Reach Me (2009)by Rebecca Stead
 | May 13, 2013 | edit |  Lovely, clever homage to Wrinkle in Time and 70s Manhattan. (  ) lxydis | May 11, 2013 | A wonderful and compelling story. Stead drops hints very carefully and builds suspense well; while I figured out several of the plot points well before Miranda did, I still enjoyed reading how she realizes what's going on, and there were a couple twists that I didn't expect. (And I'm jealous of Miranda's Christmas present.) ( ) castiron | May 10, 2013 | This is not necessarily my type of book, but I did enjoy reading it. The outline of the story left a lot up to the imagination and kept me curious and guessing about what was going on. The idea of time travel is present from cover to cover before the reader even realizes it. This is a book that once you go through it once, you're very tempted to go through it again. ( ) LindseyB12 | May 8, 2013 | WATCH BOOK TRAILER Sixthgrader Miranda lives in 1978 New York City with her mother and is never without her favorite book A Wrinkle in Time. When she starts to receive a series of notes that claim to want to save her life, Miranda begins to believe they are coming from someone who knows the future. This is the 2010 Newbery Medal winner. KilmerMSLibrary | Apr 30, 2013 |
 ...a story in which characters really come alive during those few months we spend with them, when their lives are shaped for ever.  In this taut novel, every word, every sentence, has meaning and substance. A hybrid of genres, it is a complex mystery, a work of historical fiction, a school story and one of friendship, with a leitmotif of time travel running through it. Most of all the novel is a thrilling puzzle. Stead piles up clues on the way to a moment of intense drama, after which it is pretty much impossible to stop reading until the last page. Eventually and improbably, these strands converge to form a thought-provoking whole. Stead ('First Light') accomplishes this by making every detail count, including Mirandas name, her hobby of knot tying and her favorite book, Madeleine LEngles 'A Wrinkle in Time'. Its easy to imagine readers studying Mirandas story as many times as shes read LEngles, and spending hours pondering the provocative questions it raises. Stead's novel is as much about character as story. Miranda's voice rings true with its faltering attempts at maturity and observation. The story builds slowly, emerging naturally from a sturdy premise. As Miranda reminisces, the time sequencing is somewhat challenging, but in an intriguing way. The setting is consistently strong. The stores and even the streets–in Miranda's neighborhood act as physical entities and impact the plot in tangible ways. This unusual, thought-provoking mystery will appeal to several types of readers. Was inspired by
No descriptions found. As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.… (more) |
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In 1970s New York City, Miranda is a sixth grader with a single mom who is preparing to be a contestant on The $20,000 Pyramid game show. Miranda and her best friend Sal are quite independent for their age, and they normally walk home from school together. However, Sal begins slowly drifting apart from Miranda, and their friendship begins to change. This isn't the only thing Miranda has to deal with - her mom's extra apartment key goes missing. She also receives a mysterious note that says, "I am coming to save your friend's life, and my own." Other cryptic notes follow, and Miranda comes closer and closer to solving the mystery of who sent the notes and whose life needs saving.
This is the 2010 Newbery Medal winner, and I can see why it deserved that honor. It is a book that defies genre. There are elements of realistic fiction, science fiction, and mystery. The book kept me in suspense all the way to the end as I tried to solve the mystery along with Miranda. Although it is a children's book, the fascinating story and the genuine characters will appeal to readers of all ages. Miranda's character grows a lot over the course of the story, and she learns some valuable insights about friendships both old and new. (