Liar  Spy, Rebecca Stead
Liar  Spy, Rebecca Stead
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Liar & Spy

Author: Rebecca Stead

Narrator: Jesse Bernstein

Unabridged: 4 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/07/2012


Synopsis

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!

About The Author

REBECCA STEAD is the author of First Light and the Newbery Medal winner When You Reach Me. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on September 22, 2012

Oh, how I’d have loved this one at ages 9 and 10, and if my life had been slightly different at 11, 12, and 13 too, and even then I still would have loved it, as I do now. I didn’t like it as much as When You Reach Me, but since that made both my favorites and favorite-time-travel-books shelves, tha......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on May 17, 2012

Rebecca Stead's books are like an onion--as the layers are peeled away and the characters reveal their secrets, the reader is left with a shiny nugget of essential truth. In this case, the truth is that pretending only keeps sadness at bay for so long. Seventh grader Georges is pretending that it's......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on August 29, 2012

Rebecca Stead is the M. Night Shyamalan of children's literature, and I mean that in a good Sixth Sense way, not a lame The Happening one. It's funny, but when I try to compare her other authors I find myself tongue-tied. Who else spends as much time on setting up and knocking down expectations in s......more

Goodreads review by Paul on May 01, 2012

No spoilers here, but fans of WHEN YOU REACH ME will appreciate the references Stead makes within the story that can lead to conversations outside of the text to include art, popular culture, and the joy of the time-honored classic Scrabble. Extensive conversations about taste buds invite a cross-co......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on May 12, 2018

Rebecca Stead’s Liar & Spy proves a very different book than her more famous Newbery Award-winning When You Reach Me, but it is, in some ways, even more engrossing, with its own twists and turns. Georges — our hero is named after the pointillist Georges Seurat — finds his word turned upside-down. Wi......more


Quotes

A Finalist for the Carnegie Medal
A New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Children’s Book
A Junior Library Guild Selection 
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, The Horn Book Magazine, The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, Chicago Public Library
Named to 21 State Award Lists 


“Readers will sympathize with Georges and Safer as they negotiate various familiar obstacles, but it’s the celebration that will leave them exultant.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Starred review

“The ending twists readers’ entire perception of the events and creates a brilliant conclusion to an insightful novel.” —School Library Journal, Starred review

“Stead’s spare and elegant prose, compassionate insight into the lives of young people, wry sense of humor, deft plotting, and ability to present complex ideas in an accessible and intriguing way make this much more than a mystery with a twist.” —The Horn Book, Starred review

“Chock-full of fascinating characters and intelligent questions, this is as close to perfect as middle-grade novels come.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred review

“[A] big-hearted, delightfully quirky tale…. Georges resolves his various issues in a way that’s both ingenious and organic to the story….Original and winning” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred review


Awards

  • ALA Best Books for Young Adults
  • ALA Notable Children's Book
  • Agatha Award-Best Children's/Young Adult
  • Amazon Best of the Year
  • Arkansas Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award
  • Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year
  • Connecticut Nutmeg Children's Book Award
  • Cybils
  • IRA Children's Choices
  • Kiddo Awards
  • Louisiana Young Reader's Choice Award
  • Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award
  • Missouri Mark Twain Award
  • New Hampshire Great Stone Face Children's Book Award
  • Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award
  • Texas Bluebonnet Master List
  • Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fischer Book Award
  • Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fischer Book Master List
  • Young Adult Services Division, School Library Journal Author Award