Liar & spy
Ratings14
Average rating3.5
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Ratings14
Average rating3.5
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
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I found it to be charming and amusing, up until about the last 40 pages. And then it became thoughtful, and poignant in a way. The characters are unique and get some nice development.
I was all ready to give it three stars, for being entertaining but not overly memorable. Then the end made me reconsider, and I gave four stars. I'm fairly certain I'll remember it.
So I ended up loving this book! My heart feels like it's floating on a cloud! clutches book to my chest
A nice, solid MG realistic fiction book. The audiobook was well-done and it was sweet and engaging, and at a few points extremely suspenseful–Stead was really able to build up some emotional stakes in this story, even though the plot itself (about a junior high boy and some school bullies and his new apartment building and his parents' new work situation) isn't quite life & death or anything. I didn't loove it like I looved When You Reach me, but it's a different book entirely and I still really enjoyed it.
