2010 Newberry childrens literature award winning works
Miranda, who lives in New York, and her friend shar have a set of safe living rules. For example, safe grocery stores can go, and lunatics around the corner should avoid... But from the day when shar was inexplicably beaten in the street, everything began to disintegrate. Shar stopped talking to her, the emergency key hidden by her mother was stolen, and Miranda found a mysterious note at home, "Im coming to save your friends life, as well as my own," reads the crooked words on it
Please do me two favors.
, you have to write me a letter.
Second, please remember to say where your keys are.
One note after another, Miranda gradually realized that the person who left the note seemed to know something. Every message made her believe that only she could prevent someone she loved from dying miserably, but how could she start writing this letter?
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