Inside is dozens of two dollar bills folded into triangles. One day at the sandwich shop, Colin looks inside a ceramic bank that the shop owner has told them to leave alone. In payment, the shop owner allows them one soda and a sandwich made with vegetables and cheese. Colin talks the owner of the shop to allow all three of them to work in the shop during their lunch hour each day. Colin gets it into his head to get them all a job at a local sandwich shop.
Miranda and Annemarie go to lunch on occasion with another kid, Colin. The practice begins to pay off when Miranda's mother receives a postcard informing her that she has been scheduled to appear on the show the following April. Every night Miranda and her mother's boyfriend, Richard, help her mom practice for the show. In a short time, Miranda and Annemarie become good friends, spending afternoons in each other's homes.Īt home, Miranda's mother is set on becoming a contestant on a television show called The $20,000 Pyramid. For this reason, Miranda asks Annemarie to sit with her at lunch. However, one day while walking home, Sal was punched by a bigger kid and he ran home, telling Miranda he thought they should not be friends for a while.Īt the same time Miranda and Sal stop being friends, Annemarie, a girl in Miranda's class, stopped being friends with her best friend, Julia. Her best friend, Sal, lives downstairs in the same building where Miranda and her mother live. Miranda is a middle school student who has had the same best friend since she was a baby. When You Reach Me is a coming of age novel that dabbles a little in time travel and the surreal, a novel that will leave readers as anxious as Miranda to solve each mystery, the notes and as well as some of the more common mysteries of childhood.
The answer, when it finally comes, will be the biggest surprise of all. At first Miranda is frightened by these notes, but soon she becomes intrigued, determined to find out who is sending the notes and why. In this novel, Miranda begins receiving strange notes hidden in her own possessions by an unknown person. When You Reach Me is a novel by acclaimed writer Rebecca Stead.
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