![]() ![]() Stead piles up clues on the way to a moment of intense drama, after which it is pretty much impossible to stop reading until the last page. ![]() Most of all the novel is a thrilling puzzle. 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. But don’t be deceived: In this taut novel, every word, every sentence, has meaning and substance. In this era of supersize children’s books, Rebecca Stead’s “When You Reach Me” looks positively svelte. For kids who are ahead of the game and have finished their Harry Potters, Hobbits and other classics of summer reading lists, here are three recent novels they could polish off for fun before school begins: suspense with a bit of the supernatural a friendship story set during the Great Depression and a historical novel involving mistaken identity and swordplay. ![]()
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