What do you do when your best friend of twelve years starts ignoring you for no apparent reason?
What do you do when your emergency house key gets stolen (and no one else knows the location but you and your mother) and nothing is taken from the apartment?
What do you do when you start receiving urgent and mysterious notes from an anonymous sender who can predict the future?
What do you do when the notes tell you that your friend’s life is in danger?
Ask Miranda, because that’s the situation in which she finds herself. Set in 1979 in New York City, When You Reach Me is about the mysteries of friendship, family, and time—about unveiling the world for a little bit and seeing the magic thread that connects everything.
Rebecca Stead has created a wonderfully convincing narrator in Miranda who, in turn, tells quite an intricate puzzle of a story. Readers will enjoy piecing together clues and hints while living through the eyes of Miranda as she begins to see the world as larger than she knew it to be.
Winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal, When You Reach Me is a delightful book that pays homage to the classic A Wrinkle in Time while remaining distinctly its own story. I would recommend When Your Reach Me to readers who like a tinge of science-fiction or magic realism in their daily dose of Young Adult literature.
Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me. New York: Wendy Lamb, 2009.
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