Friday, January 31, 2025
When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead
Each Friday that school is in session, I share the link to a read-aloud preview of a book from SRCSA library. The “First-chapter Friday” selection for Jan. 31, 2025 is When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead.
Shortly after a fall-out with her best friend, sixth grader Miranda starts receiving mysterious notes, and she doesn’t know what to do. The notes tell her that she must write a letter — a true story, and that she can’t share her mission with anyone. It would be easy to ignore the strange messages, except that whoever is leaving them has an uncanny ability to predict the future. If that is the case, then Miranda has a big problem — because the notes tell her that someone is going to die, and she might be too late to stop it. When You Reach Me was the winner, in 2010, of the Newbery Medal. It won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction and was a New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book.
https://youtu.be/xIAcK1RR6oY
First-chapter Friday playlist on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6F1x26TGVFF4Clbqq18kcKCxfxnuDx4w
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