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.
) accomplishes this by making every detail count, including Miranda’s name, her hobby of knot tying and her favorite book, Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time the sudden rupture of Miranda’s lifelong friendship with neighbor Sal and the unsettling appearance of a deranged homeless person dubbed “the laughing man.” Eventually and improbably, these strands converge to form a thought-provoking whole. She’s especially freaked out by one that reads: “I’m coming to save your friend’s life, and my own.” Over the course of her sixth-grade year, Miranda details three distinct plot threads: her mother’s upcoming appearance on The $20,000 Pyramid Miranda’s story is set in motion by the appearance of cryptic notes that suggest that someone is watching her and that they know things about her life that have not yet happened. When You Reach Me Author Rebecca Stead Random House Children's Books '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. Smith Crenshaw - Katherine Applegate Ribblestrop - Andy Mulligan Eye of the Storm - Kate Messner Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard One Crazy Summer - Rita Williams-Garcia The Shadows - Jacqueline West Al Capone Does My Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko Orbiting Jupiter - Gary D.Twelve-year-old Miranda, a latchkey kid whose single mother is a law school dropout, narrates this complex novel, a work of science fiction grounded in the nitty-gritty of Manhattan life in the late 1970s. Draper The Great Wall of Lucy Wu - Wendy Shang I Lived on Butterfly Hill - Marjorie Agosin Hoodoo - Ronald L. Smith The Strange Case of Origami Yoda - Tom Angleberger Out of My Mind - Sharon M.
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