When You Reach Me

When You Reach Me

By Rebecca Stead

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This Newbery Medal winner that has a fantastic puzzle at its heart has been called “smart and mesmerizing,” (The New York Times), “superb” (The Wall Street Journal), and “incandescent” (The Washington Post).
 
When Miranda starts receiving mysterious notes, 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—not even her best friend, Sal.
 
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’s the case, then Miranda has an even bigger problem—because the notes tell her that someone is going to die, and she might be too late to stop it.
 
“Lovely and almost impossibly clever.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

Winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction
A New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book

Publisher: Andersen Press
ISBN-13: 9781849392129
ISBN-10: 1849392129
Published on 1/6/2011
Binding: Paperback

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My friend recommended it to me and I loved it! It was so good and descriptive!!!!!!

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I am recently reading it! so far it is really good!

Its a great book with a big twist at the end

AMAZING! the ending blew me away

Oh my goodness this is the best book I have ever read!!!!

i want to read this book

when you reach me is like the best mystery book ever. Rebecca Stead never tells you much about what is going on.

This is definitely a mystery book, but not one of "who did it?" There is something strange going on, and the main character spends the entire book piecing together the clues. I am not often surprised by the end of a book, but I had not figured this one out until it was explained to me!

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