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📖 When You Reach Me

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👤 Author
Rebecca Stead
📚 Genre
Fiction
🎯 Interest Level
MG
📊 ATOS Book Level
4.5
🔢 Quiz No.
131144
📝 Word Count
39,253
🔗 Series
🏷️ Topic
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🌟 Recommendation Details

When You Reach Me is about a young highschool girl named Miranda and takes place in New York in 1979. Miranda is an average teenager with fluctuating friendships and styles, but her life mysteriously changes when her particularly close friend named Sal starts drifting away from her. Since then, Miranda started receiving mysterious notes in her workplace and clothes, and Miranda was unable to decipher the writer. However, Miranda realizes the significance of the notes when she discovers that the writer came from the future and needed her help to save someone's life. I recommend this book because it is mind boggling. The plot is unpredictable and interesting with wholesome character development within it too. Time is an important theme in this book, applying to the present, past, and future of Miranda's friends, and the author's wonderful use of foreshadowing ties together the future timeline perfectly with Miranda's present timeline. When You Reach Me is a unique and deep story that can be enjoyed by many.

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