Keen readers will notice Stead toying with time from the start, as Miranda writes in the present about past events that will determine her future.
As the letters keep coming, Miranda clings to her favorite book, A Wrinkle in Time, and discusses time travel with Marcus, the nice, nerdy boy who punched Sal. Miranda’s crystalline picture of her urban landscape will resonate with city teens and intrigue suburban kids. She addresses the letter writer and recounts the weird events of her sixth-grade year, hoping to make sense of the crumpled notes. They ask for her help, saying, “I'm coming to save your friend's life, and my own.” Readers will immediately connect with Miranda’s fluid first-person narration, a mix of Manhattan street smarts and pre-teen innocence. When Miranda’s best friend Sal gets punched by a strange kid, he abruptly stops speaking to her then oddly prescient letters start arriving.
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