Rebecca Stead, winner of the 2010 John Newberry Award -- a very prestigious and haughty-taughty big deal, I assure you -- has reminded me why I became a children's author. When You Reach Me transports us back to 1978-79, into the lives of Miranda, Sal, Marcus, Annemarie, Julia and the "kicking man." Miranda is a … Continue reading AWESOME CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: WHEN YOU REACH ME, BY REBECCA STEAD