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Gr 5-8 Sixth-grader Miranda lives in 1978 New York City with her mother, and her life compass is Madeleine LEngles "A Wrinkle in Time". When she receives a series of enigmatic notes that claim to want to save her life, she comes to believe that they are from someone who knows the future. Miranda spends considerable time observing a raving vagrant who her mother calls the laughing man and trying to find t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The first real indication that this book is going to get deeply, seductively weird is when broody classmate Marcus engages the heroine, Miranda, in a discussion about a flaw in the logic of A Wrinkle in Time: "So if they had gotten home five minutes before they left, like those ladies promised they would, then they would have seen themselves get back. Before they left." Miranda's life is an o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Sixth grader Miranda's life is an ordinary round of family and school. But when she starts receiving anonymous notes ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

From the first page, author Rebecca Stead’s fantasy/mystery grabs the reader’s attention by setting up a puzzle that will take the rest of the book to solve. Miranda, the main character, addresses someone who has apparently asked her to write her story as a letter. “You asked me to mention the key. If I ever do decide to write your letter, which I probably won’t, this is the story I will tell you.” One by one the read...Log In or Sign Up to Read More