When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead is a Newberry Award winning book. It is fiction and is a mystery book. The setting of this book takes place in a girl named, Miranda’s, neighborhood and school. Through this book Miranda looses a friend, becomes friends with a popular girl, finds out her mom is going to be on a TV show, and receives these random notes about the future and can’t share them with anyone.
Miranda’s mom, a single mom, has been trying to get on a game show called, The $20,000 Dollar Pyramid, for a long time and she finally gets a letter saying she is a contestant. Richard, Miranda’s mom’s boyfriend, comes over after work and Miranda and him help her mom get ready for the game show. Before they receive the letter that she is a contestant Miranda receives a letter from an anonymous person saying the same thing. The letter also asks her to write a letter about an event that hasn’t happened yet. She starts the letter when her best friend, Sal, gets punched.
Miranda and Sal usually walk home together
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everyday after school. They always pass by this man called, The Laughing Man, because he is always running around and sleeps with his head under a mailbox and is kicking his leg into the street. One day when they were walking home a boy randomly punched Sal in the face. Sal ran crying home and Miranda ran after him but he was already inside when she got to his apartment. From then on they didn’t talk to each other for a very long time. Miranda then becomes friends with a girl named, Annemarie, who just had an argument with her best friend. The school has a dentist office in the school. One day during school, the school office needed help running to get the patients for the dentist, so Miranda went to go help. When she was getting the last patient she recognized the boy who punched Sal named, Marcus. They started to talk while they went down to the office about her book, A Wrinkle In Time, and about the future and time traveling. They then became semi good friends. Miranda and Annemarie become friends with this boy named, Colin, who got them a job at a sandwich shop. When she was at the front door of her apartment it was unlocked and that was weird because she usually came home to a locked door. She then found a note asking where the key is to the apartment and that he/she is on their way to save Miranda’s friend’s life. One day when she was working in the sandwich shop she found a note. It said for her to write a letter about things that haven’t happened yet and to not share these notes with anyone. During lunch one day Annemarie and Miranda were sitting together and Annemarie has a seizure and Miranda later finds out she has epilepsy and all the food she eats at Jimmy’s she isn’t supposed to have. She then gets a note with things that will happen in the future, a stolen bread roll in Colin’s backpack, a present she gets for Christmas, and a postcard. These all come true. After Christmas, Sal sees Marcus and starts running. Marcus runs after him trying to get him to stop but Sal runs into the street and is about to get hit by a truck when the laughing man runs in front of him and kicks his leg up. Marcus is crying. Miranda finally realizes who has been writing the notes, the laughing man. Sal is injured but is ok but the laughing man unfortunately dies. When the laughing man kicked his leg in the air his shoe came off and in the shoe it had a note. The note said to give the letter to him. When Sal comes home from the hospital Miranda goes to see him and they finally talk and realize the only reason why Sal didn’t walk with Miranda anymore is because he wanted to have other friends. They promise to walk home together when they are not with their other friends. It is the day of the competition and they are at the studio.
The game show host comes out and starts the show and they start the first round. Miranda’s mom wins. She goes onto the next round and she wins again. She goes onto the third round to win the whole thing and wins. During the game show Miranda realizing that the game show host looks so young and realizes that the laughing man is a grown-up version of Marcus who traveled back in time. She finally writes the letter and gives it to Marcus.
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead is a very interesting book. It is a mystery type future book. Through the whole book you keep guessing at whom the person is and you are so surprised at who the real writer of the notes is. When Marcus and Miranda talk about time traveling, the future and about her book, A Wrinkle In Time, Marcus knows so much about all of it and explains everything. This was a great book and I would recommend this book to everyone who likes
mystery.
For the Third Quarter SSR Project I chose the book Both Sides Of Time by Caroline B. Cooney. I settled on this fiction book not only because I’ve read all three books in Cooney’s series Time Travelers Quartet, but it just so happens to be my favorite out of all of them. This book is gripping to me because of the events happening in the book. A hopeless romantic going back in time, involved in two love triangles in two different centuries, then forced to leave one that she loves either way. I relish reading any kind of love stories, but I especially enjoyed this one because of the twisted storylines.
Margaret Peterson sets her cliffhanger mystery book, Haddix: The Missing Found, in a modest neighborhood in Ohio. This book is in first person point of view, being told by the main character, Jonah Skidmore. The tone is fearful because Jonah voices his fears to his friend, Chip, multiples times throughout the story and usually has a fearful attitude when trying to overcome obstacles. Haddix: The Missing Found, is about a group of famous children from history who were stolen by futuristic time travelers and sent back to the 21st century as babies. These babies were soon adopted by random families around the world, and had a normal life. However, when they got to be around 13 years old, they start to get threatening letters sent to them telling them that they are, “one of the missing” (Peterson 20). These kids proceed to venture on a journey to find the person who is sending these creepy letters, and go through many obstacle along the way. Overall, I thought that Haddix: The Missing Found was a great read because it was very mysterious and kept me guessing the whole time I was reading, and I found that the characters were really relatable.
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Time: How does the way the writer moves between the past and present and future affect the structure of the book? How might this technique inform my approach?
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