Shortly after sixth-grader Miranda and her best friend Sal part ways, for some inexplicable reason her once familiar world turns upside down. Maybe it's because she's caught up in reading A Wrinkle in Time and trying to understand time travel, or perhaps it's because she's been receiving mysterious notes which accurately predict the future. Rebecca Stead's poignant novel, When You Reach Me, captures the interior monologue and observations of kids who are starting to recognize and negotiate the complexities of friendship and family, class and identity.
Review by Lauren Nemroff in http://www.amazon.com/When-You-Reach-Rebecca-Stead/dp/0385737424/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288554282&sr=1-1
When You Reach Me, written by Rebecca Stead. New York: Random House, 2009.
This book identifies many varieties of cultures within a classroom-- poverty, race, class, etc. By reading this in a classroom, students can become aware why having friends with different cultures is so important.
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