When Miranda is not in school, she prepares practice cards with her Mom’s boyfriend, Richard-who looks like a guy from a sailboat. In When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead has created an authentic west side neighborhood of apartment buildings, markets, sandwich shops, a deranged “laughing man” on the street, and school overflowing with the angst of cliques, crushes, rejections, betrayals, jealousies and reconciliations.Īt the outset, Miranda’s Mom has been selected as a contestant on Dick Clark’s $20,000 Pyramid. had told me during gym that I was named after a kidnapper.” ‘The name Miranda stands for people’s rights,’ she said last fall, when I was upset because Robbie B. Mom says that’s a dramatic way of looking at things, but sometimes the truth is dramatic. Miranda complains, “I was named after a criminal. Arizona, which gave rise to the famous warning- You have the right to remain silent. Miranda was named for the landmark court case, Miranda vs. Twelve year old Miranda is a latchkey kid who lives in a rundown apartment building with her paralegal mother, who steals office supplies from work when she is unhappy. Even though When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead might be labeled a time travel story, it never once leaves it’s ordinary setting on the upper west side of Manhattan during the 1970’s.
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