Summer Reading: When You Reach Me

The main character in the book When you Reach Me is a girl named Miranda. She has a mom and a best friend named Sal. One day Miranda and Sal were walking up the street and saw a kid running towards them. The boy caught up to Sal and punched him. Sal was scared so he ran home, leaving Miranda to catch up with him. The next day and for the next three months, Sal was ignoring Miranda and she was confused as to why and missed her best friend. Meanwhile, Miranda made friends with the kid who punched Sal because he was actually nice. He told her his name was Marcus, and why he punched Sal. Marcus told Miranda that his brother Anthony said if you punch someone and they punch you back you will know “life better.” So he did it but Sal never punched him back.

Later, Sal and Miranda’s parents had a dinner and Sal and Miranda were sitting across from each other and sorted it out with each other. The next day the police came and asked where Marcus was because they saw Marcus chasing Sal into the street. Sal ran away not knowing Marcus was trying to say sorry, but Sal thought he was going to punch him again. So Miranda and Marcus hid in the nurse’s office and locked the door. Many more mysterious events happened, but I don’t want to give any more away. This is a wonderful book and I recommend it highly.