![]() Miranda’s other consuming fear though, is that she’s losing her best friend, Sal. He yells out insanities – “bookbag, pocketshoe” – he calls her new friend an ‘Angel’ and Miranda a ‘Smartkid’. For Miranda, her biggest fear is the laughing man on the corner street, the man she passes everyday on her way to and from school. She delves into the curiosities and concerns of many sixth-graders – like losing friends, getting somersault-belly when a cute boy walks past, and facing fears. Stead’s novel is set in 1981, and is in part a recollection of her own childhood as a ‘key kid’ in New York. But when you stand back, you get the whole picture… and it’s kind of magnificent. Up close it’s just a bunch of tiny, tiny dots – indecipherable and meaningless. ![]() ‘When You Reach Me’ is sort of like the Georges Seurat painting, "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte". ‘When You Reach Me’ by Rebecca Stead was the winner of the 2010 John Newbery Medal. ![]() Someone wants Miranda to write it all down … so she is, slowly. And to explain the day that her best friend, Sal, stopped wanting to hang out with her. But someone has asked her the location of the spare key. ![]() Until the final note makes her think she’s too late. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. The notes keep coming, and Miranda slowly realizes that whoever is leaving them knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. ![]() I am coming to save your friend’s life, and my own. ![]()
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