The story begins as a sixth-grade girl, Miranda and her...

The story begins as a sixth-grade girl, Miranda and her mother are preparing for an appearance on the fame show $20,000 Pyramid. Stead describes the novel in which Miranda is writing a letter to an unnamed â€Å"you†. â€Å"You† has sent her letters which describe about the game show and is able to predict Miranda’s future. However, â€Å"You† is still a mystery to Miranda and us. Miranda spends her days in New York City with her mom. A Germany lawyer named Richard is her mom’s boyfriend who regularly visits Miranda and her mom at their apartment. Seeing that Miranda is keen on carrying the copy of a novel entitled â€Å"A Wrinkle in Time†, Miranda is fond of reading that novel. Belle’s market is a place where Miranda usually waits for her mom when she†¦show more content†¦Miranda is terrified and yells down the block but it seems to be pointless because the kid does not look back. Miranda almost cries, nevertheless she knows that she has to send Sal back home. From this point, Miranda feels miserable as her friendship with Sal has ended. Sal not only does not want to go home but also does not want to talk to Miranda anymore. For the sake of her friendship, Miranda attempts to approach Sal although it appears to be pointless. Realizing the fact that her friendship with Sal seems to be fallen apart, Miranda starts to spread out her social circle. Miranda expands her friendship by attempting to know more about Annemarie, who has conflict with her ex-best friend, Julia. Julia is known as a wealthy fortunate girl whom Miranda dislikes so much. As Miranda and Annemarie experience downturn with own former best friends, they intentionally make friends. Moreover, both of them start to expand their friendship with Colin, a cute skater boy. Three of them have a marvelous experience at a sandwich shop called Jimmy’s, a place where they work during lunch time. At school, Miranda unexpectedly meets the kid who punches Sal while she asks to be an office monitor whose job is to call for students to bring them to the school dentist. That day has made Miranda and Marcus get to know each other. In fact, noticing that Marcus is highly interested with time, Miranda feels very happy, and enjoys their relationship. Miranda finds out thatShow MoreRelatedLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 Pagesexplains what it means to be logical—to reason logically. It demonstrates the usefulness of logical reasoning as a means to making more effective decisions about your own life—decisions about what to believe and decisions about what to do. The chapter begins a systematic program of study of all the major topics regarding logical reasoning. Along the way, the book focuses on developing the following five skills: (1) writing logically, (2) detecting inconsistency and lack of clarity in a group of sentencesRead MoreConsumer Lifestyle in Singapore35714 Words   |  143 Pages  rate.        © Euromonitor International CONSUMER LIFESTYLES IN SINGAPORE Passport 4 LEARNING School Life Singapore enjoys a good reputation in Asia for the high quality of its education system. It is a bilingual education system (English and mother tongue); it uses project-based learning, and abundant internship and overseas exchange opportunities exist at tertiary level. Singaporean students are known for their strong performance in international competitions, such as the Maths Olympiad and