When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
Miranda has an odd friend named Marcus who knows a lot about time machines, another
friend named Sal who has stopped hanging out with her, and a man—not really a
friend—who sleeps under the mailbox out front. And then there are those mysterious
notes from someone who seems to know quite a lot, but also needs her to write about
everything that’s happening in her twelve-year-old life.
— Michael Main
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. Before they left.
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books,
July 2009).