ISBN: 0385737424 9780385737425

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Family / General

Page count: 208

<b>"Like <i>A Wrinkle in Time</i> (Miranda's favorite book), <i>When You Reach Me</i> far surpasses the usual whodunit or sci-fi adventure to become an incandescent exploration of 'life, death, and the beauty of it all.'" —<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br><b>This Newbery Medal winner that has been called "smart and mesmerizing," (<i>The New York Times</i>) and "superb" (<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>) will appeal to readers of all types, especially those who are looking for a thought-provoking mystery with a mind-blowing twist.</b><br><br>Shortly after a fall-out with her best friend, sixth grader Miranda starts receiving mysterious notes, and she doesn’t know what to do. The notes tell her that she must write a letter—a true story, and that she can’t share her mission with anyone.<br><br>It would be easy to ignore the strange messages, except that whoever is leaving them has an uncanny ability to predict the future. If that is the case, then Miranda has a big problem—because the notes tell her that someone is going to die, and she might be too late to stop it. <br><br><b>Winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction </b><br><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller and Notable Book</b><br><b>Five Starred Reviews</b><br><b>A Junior Library Guild Selection</b><br><b>A <i>PARADE</i> Best Kids Book of All Time</b><br><b>A <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> Best Middle Grade Book of the Century</b><br><br>"Absorbing." —<i>People</i><br><br>"Readers ... are likely to find themselves chewing over the details of this superb and intricate tale long afterward." —<i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br><br>"Lovely and almost impossibly clever." —<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i><br><br>"It's easy to imagine readers studying Miranda's story as many times as she's read L'Engle's, and spending hours pondering the provocative questions it raises." —<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, Starred review<br><i><br></i>