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When you reach me is a book written by Rebecca Stead. It is about a girl named Miranda, who starts receiving mysterious letters from someone that she calls "you" who tells Miranda to write a letter to him/her. Miranda's mom has been practicing to enter the $2000 pyramid show with her boyfriend's and Miranda's help. Miranda complains about having to wait for Mom at Belle's so they decide to have a spare key in the fire hose. Miranda had a friend named Sal who also lived in her building but they are not longer friends. Miranda already started the letter to "you" the day Sal got punched, which was the day his friendship with Miranda ended (but Miranda didn't know that yet). Mom gets accepted at the show and they keep practicing. Everyday when miranda returns home from school, she has to walk past the "laughing man", a weird man who sleeps under Miranda's mailbox. Sal starts spending less time with Miranda so she makes a new friend called Annemarie, who was Julia's (a girl Miranda doesn't like, at all) best friend. Mom has already mastered the speed round in the show so they start to practice the winner's circle part, which is harder because there are no hand movements included. Miranda meets the boy who punched Sal, Marcus Heilbroner, and they have a conversation about time travel. Miranda and Annemarie meet Colin, who starts spending lunch with them and who got a  job for the three of them making sandwiches at Jimmy's during lunch, Jimmy is creepy according to Miranda but Annemarie thinks that he is still nice. Friday afternoon, Miranda gets home and finds her door unlocked, which never happens and she goes to Sal's apartment, he told her that maybe she just forgot to lock the door but Mom later says that she did lock it, they go check the fire hose and find out that the key is gone. Monday morning, Miranda finds the first note, where "you" asks for the location of the key, which is weird because he/she already took the keys before asking for the location. Jimmy won't let Miranda make sandwiches because he says her "V-cuts" aren't good enough so she counts bread and makes hot chocolate.

"M,This is hard. Harder than I expected, even with your help. But I have been practicing, and my preparations go well. I am coming to save your friend's life, and my own.I ask two favors.First, you must write me a letter.Second, please remember to mention the location of your house key. The trip is a difficult one. I will not be myself when I reach you" (Stead 60)

This quote is the first note Miranda received from "you". This quote got me thinking a lot. Miranda received this note after her key had disappeared, she said that the situation happened backwards. Then I remembered to when Miranda was talking to Marcus about time travel, in the book that Miranda was reading, two ladies told the kids that they will return (to their current time period) five minutes before they left and that they will return to the patio. Marcus said that they were lying because the kids would have seen themselves running to the patio because it had already happened, that got Miranda confused and she didn't understand what Marcus meant. I chose this quote because it makes me think that "you" may be stuck in time, because he asked for the location after he took the key. Also, "you" said he is "coming" to save Miranda's friend's life and his own, which starts the question, how do you save your own life if you a re already dead? That is what I'm questioning, and I think that this quote is really important in the book because it may lead to the answers to every mystery in this book.

"For a long time, Colin was just this short kid who seemed to end up in my class every year." (Stead 54)

This quote are Miranda's thoughts about Colin. She says that she barely knew him and that suddenly, he was always with her and Annemarie in school. They were strangers and then, in a blink, they were friends. I liked this quote because it shows how everything in life changes so quickly without us even realizing it. We have to cherish every moment we have, because one day, it will be a memory. This quote also shows that we have to prepare ourselves for changes in our lives because when life hits you hard out of nowhere, you'll know how to react in order to be alright. Miranda and Annemarie were impacted when Colin started to spend time with them, at first they were confused, but they got used to it while the time passed and they created a new friendship, and thanks to that they found a job and they have a strange friendship with Jimmy. This also shows us that we don't have to judge someone by what they seem to be, because once you know them, they  might end up being someone entirely different from what you had in mind. Like Colin, who seemed just the guy with a skateboard and ended up being friendly and someone you would like to spend time with. That also happened with Annemarie, Miranda just saw her as Julia's best friend until they got into a fight and Miranda got a chance to really know Annemarie and discovered that there was a lot about her that she didn't know before.

I'm really loving this book. It's one of the most interesting books I've ever read and it is just amazing. There is just one way to describe it, it is a page turner. It is almost impossible to stop reading, it keeps me wanting to read more and solve the unsolved mysteries. I think that Colin is going to start having a crush for either Annemarie or Miranda and that it will make situations awkward. I think that Jimmy might fire Miranda because she mentioned that her V-cuts are getting worst, while Annemarie's and Colin's are perfect. Mom will keep practicing, I know that, and I think that she will do really well in the contest and, probably, she will even win the $20,000 price. Also I think that Richard will propose to Mom and I think that she'll say yes. I really hope that Sal and Miranda solve their problems and be friends again because friends are very important in life and you shouldn't lose them because they will help you in life when you need them, specially when you are only child, you need friends to support you, because your true friends will love you always, no matter what. I can't wait to keep reading, I am really enjoying this book, and I think that I'm going to like it a lot.