Miranda is comfortable in her urban slightly run down neighborhood with her best (and only) friend Sal, her trivia obsessed mother and even the crazy guy who sticks his head under the mailbox on the corner. She only wants to read and reread A Wrinkle in Time. But then things start coming apart: Sal starts avoiding her, things go missing, and other things turn up, like notes telling her what's going to happen in the future. ...and they do. Trying to uncover these mysteries leads to new events and connections in Miranda's life, but none seem related to each other.....and then suddenly they are.
The author, Rebecca Stead, notes that she thought a lot about time as she was growing up, especially about the passing of time, and about remembering the "person" she is now at some later date. She writes that one of the reasons for writing this book was: "... thinking about how we leave ourselves behind in a way, which I think we do, throughout our lives." Do you agree with her?
Would you choose to time travel if you could? If so, would you choose your own life at an earlier time...or a future time?
Did you figure out Miranda's mystery before she did?
I just have to say that this book definitely deserves the Newberry! I was on a mock Newberry committee and it won hands down.
I would never travel to my future. If I found out about something good happening, I would be so excited that I'd miss out on the present. If I found out about something bad, on the other hand, I would have to live with the knowledge that things wouldn't be good forever. As I grow up, I feel like I am leaving my childhood behind, so I would travel to my past and refresh my memory.
The end of the book surprised me, although I knew something had to be up what with all the talk of time travel...
Posted by: IceCubeClaws | 06/24/2010 at 05:38 PM