Title: When
You Reach Me
Author: Rebecca Stead
Reader: Cynthia
Holloway
Publisher: Listening
Library Year: 2009
ISBN: 978-0739380727
Media: Digital
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Genre: Fiction/Science
Fiction/Realistic Fiction
This book is for Ages:
10 – adult
Awards: Newbery
Medal; SLJ Best Book, YALSA Top Ten
AR Points: 6.0
Subjects/Themes: Time
Travel, Family Life, Friendship, Bullies.
Plot Summary: 6th graders, Miranda and Sal
have been best friends for a long time.
One day on the way home from school, Sal gets punched by a strange boy
in a camouflage coat. Sal doesn’t want
to hang out with Miranda anymore. Miranda’s life is made even stranger when the
spare key to her apartment is stolen, and she starts finding mysterious notes
around her apartment, notes about someone coming to save her friend’s
life. Miranda is scared. Which friend’s life need saving? Who has been in her apartment? How does the mysterious note writer know so
much about her life?
Review: Depicting the quiet growth of Miranda,
this book is strongly related to Madeline L’Engle’s Wrinkle in Time. Stead’s characters
will remind you of friends from school. The
story is well paced and builds to reveal the mystery. The real story is about the possibilities and
travel we can take as we journey through life.
Stead has created a book with depth and heart that is worth reading more
than once.
If you like this book
you may also like: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle.
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