Miranda - the protagonist of the 2010 Newbery Medal winner, if I can reach - a twelve year old child latchkey child lives with his single mother in New York City in 1970. She is smart, funny, and read only one book: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Her mother - an aspiring lawyer with a strong sense of justice - was forced to abandon the law school when she was Miranda. He now works as a legal assistant unfortunately and dreams of winning the game show the $ 20,000 Pyramid, you canleft his job.
Miranda is your best friend, Sal, come into their lives at home. One day, while two of them were returning home from school, punches a guy named Marcus district Sal, and Sal from that day just seemed to drift: He no longer expects to walk with Miranda, and still refuses to look at them when they meet between them. In the vacuum left by mistake Sal Miranda strikes new friends with Anne Marie - who recently ditched his sometimes arrogantJulia's best friend - and Colin, "these short boy, who appeared at the end of my class every year" (p. 54). The three gather for lunch at a local job sandwich, Jimmy Bond and smells of cheese sandwiches with cucumbers.
One day, Miranda finds her apartment unlocked so mysterious after school, and the spare key is missing from its hiding place, she and her mother is exhausting. Shortly after receiving the following note mysterious Miranda
"This is difficult. Harder than meexpected, even with your help. But I practiced, and my preparation is good. I come to save the life of your friend and mine. I ask two favors. First, I must write a letter. Second, because not to mention the location of your house key. The journey is a difficult issue. I do not want to be myself if you reach "(p. 60).
Miranda continued to receive notes like this - four in all - as every strange and mysterious as the first. The notes to reveal his secret: who isSend your notes? What type of trip is to take the sender of the planning? Miranda friends that to be saved? And from what? And what about this crazy homeless corner, asleep with her head in the mailbox? These questions, together with the gap between Miranda and Sal, are driving the story.
Many things make this book fascinating. The first, of course, the secret, the reader is intended as the solution as Miranda. Stead gives depth to the mystery beyond the mereContents of the note, lacing the book with the theme of science fiction for long trips. The most obvious possibility, this theme is revealed in conversations with friends of Miranda is certain - especially Marcus, a prodigy in mathematics and physics, time travel is theoretically possible to think. However, it is also a travel book about the relationship with Miranda The Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, a book in which the protagonist, Meg, traveling through time, weaving in order to save their family. (By the way, says Steadin the acknowledgments that the pound's Engle took as a child.)
Despite the intriguing mystery, but if I can reach deeper than friendship. In particular, the new addresses the question of how to hold, to choke the old friends, without them, understanding and brings the stabilizing effect that new friendships can in the efforts to preserve or recover are old. Even here I abstain from peculiarities in order not to spoil the plot, the novel narrativeReflections on friendship are very nice and resonant. This theme of friendship is deeply tweens navigation often turbulent world of middle school social.
The book is also very intelligent. For example, as I said, Miranda's mother wants to win the $ 20,000 Pyramid. The last part of the exhibition game is the "Winner's Circle", which describes a set of objects for the participants, and necessary to say what are the objects in the category.For example, say if the objects were "a tube of toothpaste, someone's hand," the candidate should be "things that you squeeze" (p. 39). Titles Stead has sent most of the chapters of the book with categories such as "keep things in a Box," "Things That Go Missing" and "Things You Hide". Indeed, Stead puts objects in the individual chapters that fall into these categories, license holders. After a bit 'was a fun game to find more, what "things to smell," or "things" Kick were in theChapter I was reading!
In addition to these factors, when you reach my subjective attractiveness, the book is useful to developing young players. In particular, the book will hopefully positive news on some of the important issues of life. Indeed, it appears to raise part for the express purpose Stead it for a moment, the "veil" that hides in good standing before us "the world is real, in all its beauty and cruelty, and sadness, and 'love' (p. 71). In other words,Part Stead goal, while it is true, but hopefully inspire reflection on some of the really important things in life.
Stead collection of the value of friendship is perhaps the most important and obvious example of what makes this book good for tweens. Your attention to the deep meaning of friendship is a welcome counterweight to the catty, superficial social culture typical middle school.
The possibility of redemption is another problem that evolutionarily valuable Steadexplored in the novel. For example, the book is based on a second chance for the mother of Miranda - both professional and relational. Similarly, Miranda is a change in the way of redeeming to see and treat their classmates Julia and Alice Evans. While Julia seen before as a competitor for the affection of Anne Marie and Alice as a strange child who waited too long to go to the toilet, is the end of the book, the veil of Miranda suddenly removed, reveals how Julia Anne Marieloyal friend, and Alice as insecure outsider. This insight gives Miranda a new compassion and kindness toward each.
In summary, if I can get a fantastic book for children aged nine years and over. Not only is it interesting questions irresistible bundle a secret, but it does friendship and redemption, and thereby promotes the right kind of values in interpolation.
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