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When You Reach Me: (Newbery Medal Winner)
Contributor(s): Stead, Rebecca (Author)
ISBN: 0375850864     ISBN-13: 9780375850868
Publisher: Yearling Books
OUR PRICE:   $8.09  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2010
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship
- Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles - City & Town Life
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 750
Series: Yearling Newbery
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.6" (0.35 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Friendship
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Chronological Period - 1970's
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 131144
Reading Level: 4.5   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 6.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

Like A Wrinkle in Time (Miranda's favorite book), When You Reach Me far surpasses the usual whodunit or sci-fi adventure to become an incandescent exploration of 'life, death, and the beauty of it all.' --The Washington Post

This Newbery Medal winner that has been called smart and mesmerizing, (The New York Times) and superb (The Wall Street Journal) will appeal to readers of all types, especially those who are looking for a thought-provoking mystery with a mind-blowing twist.

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.

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.

Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction
A New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book
Five Starred Reviews
A Junior Library Guild Selection

Absorbing. --People

Readers ... are likely to find themselves chewing over the details of this superb and intricate tale long afterward. --The Wall Street Journal

Lovely and almost impossibly clever. --The Philadelphia Inquirer

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. --Publishers Weekly, Starred review