In Liar and Spy, Newbery winning author Rebecca Stead offers readers a satisfying novel full of suspense, plot twists, and complex main characters. All the while, events even more questionable are developing among his own friends and family.

X, his own values, fears, and decisions are put to the test.

As Georges’s skills of observation, secrecy, and deduction sharpen while following Mr. X, who also lives in the apartment building, dresses only in black, and carries large body-sized suitcases to and from his residence. The object of their intelligence gathering is the suspicious Mr.

So when he is recruited into a secret spy club by Safer, a coffee-drinking home-taught boy in his apartment building, he unwittingly enters into a friendship that demands more of him than he ever suspected. His father lost his job, and his mother works double shifts at the hospital practically every night to make ends meet his family has to move from the house he grew up in to an apartment in the same neighborhood and he continues to suffer the puerile seventh grade taunts of a popular classmate. Georges is dealing with a lot this school year.

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