When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead197 pages.
This year's Newbery winner is a keeper. In sixth grade, Miranda's comfortable life in New York City changes. Her best friend, Sal sudenly stops speaking to her. She reaches out to make new friends and to solve a puzzle. She finds scraps of notes that suggests the writer knows her future. The notes seem threatening, but warn her not to show them to anybody. Miranda's favorite book in the world is Madeleine L'engle's Newbery winning A Wrinkle in Time....hmm. This novel shares some of the time warp theories mentioned in A Wrinkle in Time. It also can stand proudly by other vintage award winners that have a mystery/puzzle theme: The Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler by Konigsberg and The Westing Game by Raskin.
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