Tuesday, May 19, 2020

When You Reach Me

So any book that starts with a quote by Einstein has got to be good! When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead, opens with:
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." -  Albert Einstein
And cue the mystery as it begins to swirl in the opening pages. Miranda is prepping her mom for her upcoming appearance on the game show, The $20,000 Dollar Pyramid and adjusting to life without the familiar comfort of her best friend, Sal. As she navigates making new friendships at her school, she has to make sense of a boy who gets a rise out of her at their first meeting when he questions a premise in the book, A Wrinkle in Time. Miranda is obsessed with this book and considers it her personal treasure.  What follows is a dizzying interrelatedness between the two stories and a show-stopping revelation as the book ends. If you like to tinker around with questions about the status quo, concepts, constructs, the universe, then this is the book for you!

I give this book the highest rating because of the clever interconnectedness of the plot with another favorite book, A Wrinkle in Time.
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