The year is 1979 and Miranda is a sixth grader living in New York City. She absolutely loves the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Her mother is going to be a contestant on the game show The $20,000 Pyramid and they practice together every night. Miranda's best friend Sal stopped speaking to her the day he got jumped on their walk home from school, and since then she's made a few new friends.But when Miranda receives four mysterious notes, each showing up in a random place, the strange things in life are hard to ignore. Where did the crazy laughing man on the corner come from? What's up with Marcus, the boy who punched Sal for no reason, and is it just a coincidence that he also knows a lot about A Wrinkle in Time? Who is sending the notes, and better yet, when? Will Miranda put the pieces of the puzzle together and finally understand when you reach me?
Why I picked up this book: Other librarians were saying great things about it and then it won the 2010 Newbery Award.
Why I finished it: It was really short chapters with cool titles (categories from the $20,000 pyramid).
I'd give it to: middle school students, anyone assigned to read a Newbery award winner, someone who liked A Wrinkle in Time.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
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