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When You Reach Me is a story about the interior monologue and observations of kids who are starting to recognize and negotiate the complexities of friendship and family, class and identity. Shortly after sixth-grader Miranda and her best friend Sal part ways, for some inexplicable reason Miranda's once familiar world turns upside down. Maybe it's because Miranda's caught up in trying to understand time travel, or perhaps it's because she's been receiving mysterious notes which accurately predict the future. This enticing novel is suiting for Intermediate to Advanced level readers.

生活在紐約的米蘭達和她最好的朋友沙爾有一套安全生活準則，比方說安全的雜貨店可以去，轉角的瘋子應該要避開……但從沙爾在街上莫名其妙遭人痛扁那天，一切開始分裂崩解！沙爾不再跟她說話、媽媽藏起來的緊急備用鑰匙被偷走了、米蘭達在家裡發現一張神祕的字條，上面歪七扭八的字寫著：
我就要過來救你朋友的性命了，還有我自己的。
請你幫我兩個忙。
第一，你得寫封信給我。
第二，請記得說你家鑰匙放在哪裡。
字條一張接著一張，米蘭達漸漸明白，留字條的人似乎知道些什麼。每個訊息都使她更加相信，唯有她能夠預防某個她愛的人悲慘地死去，但她該怎麼開始寫這封信呢？ ----