Liar & Spy

Liar & Spy
1st (American) edition, hardcover dustjacket
AuthorRebecca Stead
Cover artistYan Nascimbene (hc)
Mary Kate McDevitt (pb)
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's novel
PublishedAugust 7, 2012
PublisherWendy Lamb Books
Publication placeUnited States
Pages217
AwardsNewbery Medal
ISBN978-0-385-73743-2
WebsiteOfficial website

Liar & Spy is a children's novel written by Rebecca Stead published in 2012 that is set in Brooklyn and describes the adventures of Georges and Safer, two middle school students who are working to unmask a suspected spy in their building. At the same time, Georges is experiencing a casual bullying that adults in his life seem to minimize. Stead was the first American author to win the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for Liar & Spy, in 2013.