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Review Of Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me
In Rebecca Stead's exciting and mind-blowing novel, When You Reach Me, it is the year is 1979 and Miranda along with her mom live inside a small apartment in New York City, New York. Miranda seems to lead a pretty normal life, but that changes quickly. Sal, Miranda's thought to be best friend, turns out not to be such a good friend after all. The day the new kid in a green army coat nonchalantly walked up to Sal and punched him in the face is the day Sal and Miranda's friendship seemed to have expired. After that, Sal becomes very distant from Miranda and starts playing basketball a lot more.
Coming home from school one day, Miranda finds the emergency key to her apartment stolen. The door is unlocked and a small note is written on a little
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