About the book: Miranda receives a few mysterious notes that predicts future events. The story starts out in current time for Miranda and then she remembers events that happen around the time she received the first note. She tells about her relationship with Sal and how he stopped being her friend. She becomes friends with Annmarie and Colin. Every day at lunch for almost two months they help the sandwich guy at his shop. She meets Marcus who beat up Sal the last time she remembers Sal talking to her. Marcus is lost in thought in his head a lot. Miranda and Marcus discuss the possibility of time travel. A Wrinkle in Time is Miranda’s favorite book. Eventually the sequence of events leads up to Sal being almost hit by a vehicle. The Laughing Guy that would stand on the corner and frighten her; kicked Sal out of the way and was hit instead. Miranda comes to the conclusion time travel is possible and the laughing guy came to the future to save Sal. He practiced everyday with kicking his leg out into the street. She also concluded that Marcus and the laughing guy are the same people.
Readers Response: In When You Reach Me, Miranda’s favorite book is A Wrinkle in Time. Her favorite book involves time travel. Miranda is trying to solve a mystery of who is leaving the notes and why. Her reflections on past events help her put the pieces together. An activity that could be done with this book is reading both books and talk about similarities and differences. Then pose some of Peck’s questions for the students to answer in reflection to one of the two books.
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