![]() ![]() Miranda develops new friendships with classmates Annemarie (who has also “broken up” with her best friend, Julia) and Colin. The notes frighten Miranda, partly because they correctly predict future events, such as the date her mom appears as a contestant on “$20,000 Pyramid.” The anonymous writer says he’s coming to save her friend’s life and his own, and he needs Miranda to write a letter for him. Then Miranda starts getting strange notes. ![]() When Miranda’s best buddy, Sal, gets punched by another boy for no apparent reason, Sal abruptly ends his friendship with Miranda. Because of his crazy cackling, she and Mom refer to him as the laughing man. A latch-key kid, Miranda always walks home from school cautiously, particularly trying to avoid an insane old vagrant who hangs out near her building. Mom’s boyfriend, Richard, spends much of his time with them. Miranda, a sixth-grader in the late 1970s, lives with her mother in a run-down New York apartment. ![]()
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