Liar & Spy -- Rebecca Stead, Paperback

The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of the Newbery Medal winner When You Reach Me a story about spies, games, and friendship.

The first day Georges (the S is silent) moves into a new Brooklyn apartment, he sees a sign taped to a door in the basement: SPY CLUB MEETING--TODAY

That's how he meets his twelve-year-old neigh­bor Safer. He and Georges quickly become allies--and fellow spies. Their assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives in the apartment upstairs. But as Safer's requests become more and more demanding, Georges starts to wonder: how far is too far to go for your only friend?

"Will touch the hearts of kids and adults alike." --NPR

Winner of the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and more

Author: Rebecca Stead
Publisher: Yearling Books
Published: 08/06/2013
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780375850875
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.8
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 152752 / Liar & Spy

Award: Nutmeg Book Award - Nominee
Award: Massachusetts Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award - Nominee

About the Author

REBECCA STEAD is the author of When You Reach Me, which was a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction, and Liar & Spy, which was also a New York Times bestseller, won the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction, and was on multiple state master lists and best of the year lists. Her most recent book, Goodbye Stranger, was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book for Fiction and a New York Times bestseller. She is also the author of First Light, which was nominated for many state awards. She lives in New York City with her family. Visit her online at rebeccasteadbooks.com.