today: Colin’s knapsack.” Miranda doesn’t know who is writing these things or where they are coming from but it is absolutely clear that the person who wrote the notes knows things that no one could know. The notes say things like “I am coming to save your friend’s life and my own” and “You will want proof. And tiny, mysterious notes start turning up in private places, like the pocket of her winter coat that's been in the closet since last March. Now Miranda (Mira for short) must find a new best friend at school. Her best friend Sal doesn't want to talk to her, for some inexplicable reason. Sixth-grader Miranda's world is turning upside down. My daughter and I just finished reading this, and she loved its combination of a realistic friendship story with a fantasy twist. I didn't see it coming, and I just wanted to start all over again. Have you ever finished a book and wanted to start reading it all over again, it was so intriguing? When I read Rebecca Stead's new novel, When You Reach Me, I was fascinated and gripped by the ending.
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