{"id":4442,"date":"2010-06-01T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philosophyforchildren.org\/when-you-reach-me\/"},"modified":"2010-06-01T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T04:18:00","slug":"when-you-reach-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/when-you-reach-me\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Reach Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/TAVCdcpoJXI\/AAAAAAAAAWA\/TVZt_hekenI\/s1600\/when-you-reach-me.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/TAVCdcpoJXI\/AAAAAAAAAWA\/TVZt_hekenI\/s320\/when-you-reach-me.jpg\" width=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/When-You-Reach-Rebecca-Stead\/dp\/0385737424?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wondephilo-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When You Reach Me<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wondephilo-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0385737424\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;\" width=\"1\" \/><\/i>, a young adult novel that was a winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal, was written&nbsp;by Rebecca Stead. Set in New York City in the late 1970s, it&#8217;s an engrossing story about a young girl, her relationships with her friends, her single mother and her mother&#8217;s boyfriend, and a mystery.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">Miranda is in the sixth grade when she begins to receive a series of notes that indicate knowledge about Miranda&#8217;s life that is seemingly impossible for anyone to have. Miranda&#8217;s attempts to understand why she is receiving these notes and what they mean are beautifully illustrated through Miranda&#8217;s interior monologues about growing up on the upper west side of Manhattan in 1979 and the trials and joys of sixth grade.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">The story raises philosophical questions about the nature of time, the nature of friendship, courage and trust, &nbsp;and the meaning of life and death. It would be a marvelous book to read along with a middle-school-aged child (I read it along with my twelve-year-old son) or to read to a class of upper elementary school students. I couldn&#8217;t put it down!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When You Reach Me, a young adult novel that was a winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal, was written&nbsp;by Rebecca Stead. 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