Twelve year old Miranda (named for the law, not for the kidnapper the law was named after, as her mom reminds her) narrates this L’Engle-esque time travel story. It all begins when her best friend, Sal, gets hit for no reason. After that, he no longer wants to be her friend…again, for no reason. With the back-story of her mom practicing to be on the 1970’s game show “The $20,000 Pyramid," Miranda tries to figure out the source and meaning of four mysterious notes that reveal that someone is time traveling. Can she save a life?
When You Reach Me is a riddle to be riddled, page after page.
After the first chapter, I found myself making connections to Madeline L’Engle’s classic
A Wrinkle in Time, so it was particularly satisfying to find that Stead had the same obsession. Fans of a softer science fiction will be fascinated by this Newbery Medal winning look at what time travel could truly mean for a kid.
Stead, R. (2009).
When you reach me. New York, NY: Wendy Lamb Books.
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