Miranda finds something in Colin's bag that even he could not have know would be there when he arrived at school that day. One by one the prophesied events occur, just as the mysterious note had promised. On the first really cold day of fall, Miranda finds the second frightening note at the bottom of a pocket of her last-year's parka in the coat closet: In all, four of these notes are found in strange places. So if they had gotten home five minutes before they left, like those ladies promised they would, then they would have seen themselves get back. Except those ladies lied, at the beginning of the book." But when she tries to talk to Marcus about his reason for hitting Sal, he strangely deflects her attention to her well-read copy of A Wrinkle in Time. Miranda is a girl who tries to face her worries head on. And now someone has stolen her mom's emergency house key, hidden in the nozzle of a fire hose in the stairway landing. She worries about a strange homeless man who sleeps with his head under a mailbox and calls out "Smart girl!" when she walks by on the way from school. Miranda misses the closeness with Sal, her friend from daycare days, who has seemed to avoid her since he was inexplicably punched in the street by a boy named Marcus.
She resents her wealthy classmate Julia, whom it seems is pampered enough to complain the lack of cafe au lait-colored construction paper to match her skin in her self-portrait in art class-Julia, whom classmate Annemarie has known forever and is now Miranda's rival for her friendship. She's a little embarrassed to have her friend visit the shabby apartment where she lives with her mother.
Up until the moment twelve-year-old Miranda finds a cryptic note, in tiny writing, mysteriously sticking out of the unread library book in her backpack, her worries have been normal enough. If ever an English teacher needed a novel which illustrates the power of that oft-taught literary device, it is this one. I will not be myself when I reach you.įoreshadowing. Second, please remember to mention the location of your housekey. I am coming to save your friend's life, and my own. But I have been practicing, and my preparations go well. Harder than I expected, even with your help.
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