When You Reach Me is a book set in the 1970's about a young girl, Miranda and her mom.  They live in neighborhood in New York along with several friends and a crazy guy on the corner.  Throughout the book Miranda and Richard, her moms boyfriend, are continually helping her mom practice for an apperance on the game show The $20,000 Pyramid.  The other thing that happens throughout the book is she get notes and has no idea who they are from.  These notes have information that not just anyone would know.
Miranda is a girl going through her life like any other 12 year old girl.  She is trying to make friends, discover boys, go to school and read her favorite book about time travel.
As I read the book I was never really for sure what was going happen next. As Miranda navigated her daily life with the notes and and those around her I was entertained and wanting to find out what would happen next.  It wan't unitl the last pages when Miranda finally figures out who the notes were from that I knew how it would end.
I enjoyed reading When You Reach Me.  It was such a realistic story yet that edge of Fantasy that made me to want to keep turning the pages.  I am not going to tell about the ending so that others will get the same surprise that I did.