When You Reach Me

When You Reach Me

By Rebecca Stead

150 ratings 167 reviews 203 followers
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grades 3 - 8W4.539253

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

Book Reviews (162)

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Safiya Safiya

It's fun.I like it.Everyone could enjoy it.

Ellie Ellie

This is such a great book!!! The characters have so much backround, and the story is ccol!!!!! The different symbols make it really cool!!!! Everyone shoulds read it!

This book was fantabulous, we read it in fourth grade and it was really amazing! I defiantly recomend this book, it is a bit confusing, but VERY much worth it.

This book was really good, it had many many twists, and even though it was a kids book I would recommend this book to all of my friends and fans.

iluvoned iluvoned

I read this book a while ago and i really enjoyed it. At first, i thought it was going to be a normal realistic fiction book, but then took me by surprise when strange things started happening to Miranda. She started receiving these notes that at first she thought they were supposed to be written to someone else by mistake, then she realized that they are meant for her. More and more kept coming and she got overwhelmed by it all. To find out more you will just have to read it!!!

funkypunk funkypunk

I read this book and it totally blew me away! Especially the end, when you find out about Marcus and the laughing man and how he saves Sal's life. If you have to read one book this year, this should be it - you won't regret it.

Wow this book sounds super amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've read this amazing book in fourth grade and I can't stop reading it since then. It is the very best book I have read and I recommend it to anyone! Its exactly the 'Cant-leave-it-until you're-done-with-it' kind of book!

i read it in fourth grade too

I want to try this book. It looks fun! 'When you reach me' looks like an exciting title, isn't it?

Did this happen in real life, or what?

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