Title: When You Reach Me
Author: Rebecca Stead
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books; 1 edition
Release date: July 2009
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-0385737425
Summary:
Amazon:
"Sixth-grader Miranda lives in 1978 New York City with her mother, and her life compass is Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. When she receives a series of enigmatic notes that claim to want to save her life, she comes to believe that they are from someone who knows the future. Miranda spends considerable time observing a raving vagrant who her mother calls the laughing man and trying to find the connection between the notes and her everyday life. Discerning readers will realize the ties between Miranda's mystery and L'Engle's plot, but will enjoy hints of fantasy and descriptions of middle school dynamics. 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"
http://www.amazon.com/When-You-Reach-Rebecca-Stead/dp/0385737424/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288632426&sr=1-1
In the classroom:
This book grows through a series of changes and transitions that all adolescents go through during their beginning teenage years. Therefore, this book is able to connect with lots of different types of kids within a classroom and could be read as entire class unit. I think every student can benefit from the transitions that the characters go through and reading a story like this one can help kids adapt. It's a wonderful way for adolescents to learn lessons about what's to come as they continue to grow up.
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