When You Reach Meby Rebecca Stead 199 pages, HardcoverPublisher: Wendy Lamb BooksRelease Date: July 14, 2009My Rating: ★★★★☆ Book Summary Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody who knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing that …

Blindnessby José Saramago 352 pages, PaperbackPublisher: HarperVia (on October 4, 1999)Release Date: January 1, 1995My Rating: ★★★★★ Book Summary From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but …

Fever 1793by Laurie Halse Anderson 252 pages, PaperbackPublisher: AladdinRelease Date: September 1, 2000My Rating: ★★★★☆ Book Summary It’s late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at …

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordonby Stephen King 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback Publisher: Pocket Books (on April 25, 2017)Release Date: April 6, 1999My Rating: ★★★★☆ Book Summary The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King—uniquely frightening suspense about a young girl lost in the woods as night falls, with only the voice of …