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Publication
New York Wendy Lamb Books c2009.
Description
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s 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.
Awards
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (Winner — Fiction & Poetry — 2010)
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award (Nominee — 2011)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2012)
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction (Finalist — 2009)
Parents' Choice Book Award (2009)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2011)
Newbery Medal (Medal Winner — 2010)
Great Lakes Great Books Award (Honor Book — 2011)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Nēnē Award (Nominee — 2011)
Indies Choice Book Award (Winner — Middle Readers — 2010)
Oregon Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2012)
West Virginia Children's Choice Book Award (Nominee — 2010-2011)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee — Middle School — 2013)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Grades 6-9 — 2011)
Volunteer State Book Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2012)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 2010)
CCBC Choices (2010)
The Best Children's Books of the Year (Nine to Twelve — 2010)
Great Reads from Great Places (New York — 2010)
Notable Children's Book (2010)
Idaho Battle of the Books (Elementary — 2020)
Texas Lone Star Reading List (2010)
Montana Battle of the Books (2024)
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Media reviews
New York Times
This book has a very nice climax when given. Exciting and has much significance to it. Symbolic and wonderful.
...a story in which characters really come alive during those few months we spend with them, when their lives are shaped for ever.
In this taut novel, every word, every sentence, has meaning and substance. A hybrid of genres, it is a complex mystery, a work of historical fiction, a school story and one of friendship, with a leitmotif of time travel running through it. Most of all the novel is a thrilling puzzle. Stead piles up
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clues on the way to a moment of intense drama, after which it is pretty much impossible to stop reading until the last page. Show Less
Publishers Weekly
Eventually and improbably, these strands converge to form a thought-provoking whole. Stead ('First Light') accomplishes this by making every detail count, including Mirandas name, her hobby of knot tying and her favorite book, Madeleine LEngles 'A Wrinkle in Time'. Its easy to imagine readers
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studying Mirandas story as many times as shes read LEngles, and spending hours pondering the provocative questions it raises. Show Less
School Library Journal
Stead's novel is as much about character as story. Miranda's voice rings true with its faltering attempts at maturity and observation. The story builds slowly, emerging naturally from a sturdy premise. As Miranda reminisces, the time sequencing is somewhat challenging, but in an intriguing way. The
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setting is consistently strong. The stores and even the streets–in Miranda's neighborhood act as physical entities and impact the plot in tangible ways. This unusual, thought-provoking mystery will appeal to several types of readers. Show Less