Liar and Spy
Rebecca Stead
Subjects
- Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
- Action Adventures - chills, thrills and plenty of spills
- Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
Average rating
When Georges moves into a new apartment block he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old self-appointed spy. Soon Georges has become his spy recruit. His first assignment? To track the mysterious Mr X, who lives in the flat upstairs. But as Safer becomes more demanding, Georges starts to wonder: what is a game and what is a lie? How far is too far to go for your only friend?
Winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
‘A joy to read’ Independent
‘Rebecca Stead makes writing this well look easy’ Philip Ardagh, Guardian
‘Exactly what I would have wanted to read in my early teens. It feels sophisticated and clever and knowing without being too grown-up and dark’ Viv Groskop, Observer
When You Reach Me was a New York Times bestseller, won the Newbery Medal and was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize.
Reviews
It was good and very funny
Anonymous 27.07.2022
Show people that you shouldn’t lie unless you know the Consequences
Inspector Jiminy Lavalamp 02.08.2021
Excellent.
Anonymous 19.09.2020
Very good ending, but safer what kind of name is that?
Anonymous 04.09.2017
It's got so many twists and it's action packed.
Anonymous 31.08.2017
I liked this book, but sometimes it got a bit boring. The ways this book could be changed is by making it a bit more adventurous. But I would definitely recommend this book to people who like investigations.
Anonymous 07.08.2017
You should read this book because it is all about friendship and bullying. His old best friend Jason turns really cool and doesn't talk to him. Georges, the main character, gets picked on for having a 's' at the end of his name by Dallas and Carter, they call he Gorgeous. Georges moves house from his own house that he would never move out of, to an apartment. When he goes down to the basement he finds a note saying 'spy club' run by Safer. So he says he will join, it turns out they're spying on Mr X. In the apartment Georges meets friends called Safer and Candy, they have an older brother called Pigeon, their Mum and Dad let them choose their own names. Candy calls herself Candy because she loves candy, Pigeon calls himself Pigeon because he loves birds.
Anonymous 13.12.2014
