When You Reach Me

<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> <p/><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> <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/><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> <p/>Absorbing. --<i>People</i> <p/>Readers ... are likely to find themselves chewing over the details of this superb and intricate tale long afterward. --<i>The Wall Street Journal</i> <p/>Lovely and almost impossibly clever. --<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i> <p/>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>