When You Reach Me

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2009 by Rebecca Stead

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stead, Rebecca.

When you reach me / Rebecca Stead. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: 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.

eISBN: 978-0-375-89269-1

[1. Space and time—Fiction. 2. New York (N.Y.)—

History—1951—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.S80857Wh 2009

[Fic]—dc22

2008024998

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