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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stead, Rebecca.
Liar & spy / by Rebecca Stead. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: 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.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89953-9
[1. Spies—Fiction. 2. Apartment houses—Fiction. 3. Family life—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. 4. Middle schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction.]
I. Title. II. Title: Liar and spy.
PZ7.S80857Li 2012

[Fic]—dc23
2011042674

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