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When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead is an excellent book. It is about a girl named Miranda and her world goes upside down when her best friend Sal is punched by a mysterious kid. She starts getting notes from an unknown writer and hears a weird chant from a homeless person she calls The Laughing Man. Her mother is entering a game show called The $20,000 Pyramid, a popular show in 1979, when this book takes place (click here to see a clip). This book is an entire mystery until the very end. It was an excellent book that kept me on the edge of my seat, so lift your veil in July of 2009.