When You Reach Me

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　　生活在紐約的米蘭達和她最好的朋友沙爾有一套安全生活準則，比方說安全的雜貨店可以去，轉角的瘋子應該要避開……但從沙爾在街上莫名其妙遭人痛扁那天，一切開始分裂崩解！沙爾不再跟她說話、媽媽藏起來的緊急備用鑰匙被偷走了、米蘭達在家裡發現一張神祕的字條，上面歪七扭八的字寫著：
 
　　我就要過來救你朋友的性命了，還有我自己的。
　　請你幫我兩個忙。
　　第一，你得寫封信給我。
　　第二，請記得說你家鑰匙放在哪裡。
 
　　字條一張接著一張，米蘭達漸漸明白，留字條的人似乎知道些什麼。每個訊息都使她更加相信，唯有她能夠預防某個她愛的人悲慘地死去，但她該怎麼開始寫這封信呢？
 
人物介紹
 
米蘭達
　　一個就讀六年級的平凡紐約女生，平時會幫忙媽媽練習參加電視節目的競賽「獎金兩萬金字塔」。最喜歡的書是麥德琳．蘭歌寫的《時間的皺紋》。
 
米蘭達的媽媽
　　單親媽媽，法學院來不及畢業就因懷了米蘭達而被迫放棄。在米蘭達出生後任職於一間小間的律師事務所，擔任律師助手。
 
李察
　　米蘭達媽媽的男朋友，是位律師。右腿比左腿短兩吋，每當米蘭達的媽媽戲稱他為「完美先生」時，他就會敲敲他的右膝蓋。
 
沙爾
　　和米蘭達是青梅竹馬的好友，同樣出身單親家庭。自從某天被一個路邊的男生莫名其妙痛揍之後，就和米蘭達形同陌路。
 
馬可斯
　　痛揍沙爾的人，住在米蘭達家附近，和米蘭達就讀同一間學校、同一個年級。是個會用太陽所在位置判斷時間的聰明男生。
 
安瑪麗
　　米蘭達的同學，跟另一個同學茱莉亞是一起長大的好友，但有一天她不知何故不再和安瑪麗說話，安瑪麗便和米蘭達變得越來越好。
 
柯林
　　米蘭達的同學，一個矮矮小小的男生。常常會說些希奇古怪的話，讓人一方面覺得認識他挺驕傲的，另一方面又好希望自己沒站在他身邊。
 
茱莉亞
　　安瑪麗的好友，也是米蘭達的同學。家境富裕的黑人女生，會隨父母旅遊世界各地，形容自己眼睛的顏色是「百分之六十可可」色。
 
笑笑男
　　去年秋天出現在米蘭達家轉角的流浪漢，每天都睡在郵筒下面，常常對著天空揮拳，或橫躺對著街上亂踢，口中嘀咕著：「書包、口袋鞋、書包、口袋鞋。」

＂Like A Wrinkle in Time (Miranda’s favorite book), When You Reach Me far surpasses the usual whodunit or sci-fi adventure to become an incandescent exploration of ’life, death, and the beauty of it all.’＂ --The Washington Post

This Newbery Medal winner that has been called ＂smart and mesmerizing,＂ (The New York Times) and ＂superb＂ (The Wall Street Journal) will appeal to readers of all types, especially those who are looking for a thought-provoking mystery with a mind-blowing twist.

Shortly after a fall-out with her best friend, sixth grader Miranda starts receiving mysterious notes, and she doesn’t know what to do. The notes tell her that she must write a letter--a true story, and that she can’t share her mission with anyone.

It would be easy to ignore the strange messages, except that whoever is leaving them has an uncanny ability to predict the future. If that is the case, then Miranda has a big problem--because the notes tell her that someone is going to die, and she might be too late to stop it.

Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction
A New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book
Five Starred Reviews
A Junior Library Guild Selection

＂Absorbing.＂ --People

＂Readers ... are likely to find themselves chewing over the details of this superb and intricate tale long afterward.＂ --The Wall Street Journal

＂Lovely and almost impossibly clever.＂ --The Philadelphia Inquirer

＂It’s easy to imagine readers studying Miranda’s story as many times as she’s read L’Engle’s, and spending hours pondering the provocative questions it raises.＂ --Publishers Weekly, Starred review

雷貝嘉．史德（Rebecca Stead）
　　作者生長在紐約，從小就非常喜歡閱讀，認為閱讀是認識世界的門戶，但她卻很不喜歡跟別人討論自己所讀過的書，她不想承認其他人也看了同樣的故事、走過相同的門、遇到相同的人、騎過相同的龍，而且坐在同樣的餐桌前，吃同樣的點心。對她而言，這嚴重地侵犯了她的隱私。她也喜歡寫作，有時寫自創的故事，有時寫聽來的笑話、生活片段或對話。
 
　　長大後，因為覺得當作家很不切實際，史德成為律師，婚後則成為公設辯護人，並育有兩個可愛的兒子。雖然時間不多，但一有空時，她還是會寫些很嚴肅的故事。直到有一天，史德可愛的四歲兒子意外將她的筆電推到桌下，她失去了所有嚴肅的故事，卻開始寫許多有趣的故事，並成為一位作家。
 
——中文簡介擷取自中譯本《穿越時空找到我》，小魯文化出版

REBECCA STEAD is the author of When You Reach Me, which was a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction, and Liar & Spy, which was also a New York Times bestseller, won the Guardian Prize for Children’s Fiction, and was on multiple state master lists and best of the year lists. Her most recent book, Goodbye Stranger, was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book for Fiction and a New York Times bestseller. She is also the author of First Light, which was nominated for many state awards. She lives in New York City with her family. Visit her online at rebeccasteadbooks.com.