Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Review Quotes: Winner of the Newbery Medal
A Junior Library Guild Selection
An ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book
An ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults
A best book of the year:
Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Booklist, Indies Choice
Named to Multiple State Award Lists
Five starred reviews
★ "[W]hen all the sidewalk characters from Miranda's Manhattan world converge amid mind-blowing revelations and cunning details, teen readers will circle back to the beginning and say, 'Wow ... cool.'" --
Kirkus Reviews, Starred review
★ "[T]he mental gymnastics required of readers are invigorating; and the characters, children, and adults are honest bits of humanity no matter in what place or time their souls rest." --
Booklist, Starred review
★ "Closing revelations are startling and satisfying but quietly made, their reverberations giving plenty of impetus for the reader to go back to the beginning and catch what was missed." --
The Horn Book Magazine, Starred review
★ "This unusual, thought-provoking mystery will appeal to several types of readers." --
School Library Journal, Starred review
★ "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
[T]he believable characters and unexpected ending invite readers to ponder the extraordinary that underlies the ordinary in this fictional world and in their own." --
The Washington Post "Absorbing." --
People "Readers ... are likely to find themselves chewing over the details of this superb and intricate tale long afterward." --
The Wall Street Journal "Incandescent." --
The Washington Post "Smart and mesmerizing." --
The New York Times
