Synopses & Reviews
Winner of the 2010 John Newbery MedalFour mysterious letters change Miranda’s world forever.
By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it’s safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid, like the crazy guy on the corner.
But things start to unravel. Sal gets punched by a new kid for what seems like no reason, and he shuts Miranda out of his life. The apartment key that Miranda’s mom keeps hidden for emergencies is stolen. And then Miranda finds a mysterious note scrawled on a tiny slip of paper:
I am coming to save your friend’s life, and my own.
I must ask two favors. First, you must write me a letter.
The notes keep coming, and Miranda slowly realizes that whoever is leaving them knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. Until the final note makes her think she’s too late.
From the Hardcover edition.
Synopsis
This Newbery Medal winner that has a fantastic puzzle at its heart has been called -smart and mesmerizing, - (The New York Times), -superb- (The Wall Street Journal), and -incandescent- (The Washington Post).
When Miranda starts receiving mysterious notes, she doesn't know what to do.
The notes tell her that she must write a letter, a true story, and that she can't share her mission with anyone--not even her best friend, Sal.
It would be easy to ignore the strange messages, except that whoever is leaving them has an uncanny ability to predict the future. If that's the case, then Miranda has an even bigger problem--because the notes tell her that someone is going to die, and she might be too late to stop it.
-Lovely and almost impossibly clever.- --The Philadelphia Inquirer
Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction
A New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book
About the Author
Rebecca Stead is the author of
First Light. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and their two sons.
From the Hardcover edition.