Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead, illus. by Nicholas Gannon. Feiwel and Friends, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-250-16662-3
Ten-year-old Livy, who lives in Massachusetts, hasn’t visited her Gran Nicholas’s house in Australia for five years. When she returns for a visit, Livy is struck by the feeling that something very important is waiting for her. Sure enough, a peek...
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Rebecca Stead, Author . Random/Lamb $15.99 (328p) ISBN 978-0-375-84017-3
Stead’s debut novel rests on an intriguing premise—that a group of people with unusual powers was forced to flee England generations ago to live peacefully below the ice in the “cold world” of Greenland. Fourteen-year-old...
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Rebecca Stead, Author . Random/Lamb $15.99 (199p) ISBN 978-0-385-73742-5
Twelve-year-old Miranda, a latchkey kid whose single mother is a law school dropout, narrates this complex novel, a work of science fiction grounded in the nitty-gritty of Manhattan life in the late 1970s. Miranda’s story is set in motion by...
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Rebecca Stead. Random/Lamb, $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-73743-2
Seventh grade is not going well for Georges, the only child of an out-of-work Brooklyn architect and a nurse who named him after her favorite painter, pointillist Georges Seurat. Although Georges's mother has taken on double shifts to bring in extra
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Rebecca Stead. Random/Lamb, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-74317-4
Bridget Barsamian accidentally skated into traffic at age eight, and this brush with death has made her an uncommonly introspective seventh-grader. A tight triumvirate, Bridge and her friends Tab and Em have sworn upon a Twinkie never to fight, but...
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Rebecca Stead, read by Jesse Bernstein. Listening Library, unabridged, four CDs, 4.75 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-0-449-01408-0
When seventh-grader Georges and his family move into a new apartment building in Brooklyn, N.Y., he meets 12-year-old Safer, who recruits him to join her spy squad in an attempt to gather intelligence about Mr. X, a man who resides in an upstairs...
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Rebecca Stead, read by Kimberly Farr, Melissa Simhan, and Kirby Heyborne. Listening Library, , unabridged, 6 CDs, 7 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-1-101-91629-2
Three tween girls navigate the perils of junior high, boys, and texting, in this friendship novel from Newbery Medal–winning Stead. Veteran audiobook narrator Farr reads the bulk of the novel from the perspective of Bridge, one of the three BFFs. It’
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Rebecca Stead. Random/Lamb, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-101-938096
When eight-year-old Bea’s father comes out as gay, her divorcing parents give her a notebook containing “The List of Things That Will Not Change,” an accounting that helps the girl navigate her shifting family landscape. Two years later, Bea is...
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Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass. Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends, $17.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-250838-81-0
Library records contain the keys to a town’s secrets in this lightly fantastical literary mystery from the creators of Bob. On the last Monday of fifth grade, Evan McClelland takes two books from a little free library that has appeared seemingly...
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Rebecca Stead, illus. by Gracey Zhang. Chronicle, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-79721-515-0
A child grieving a move to a new
apartment narrates this musing moment-by-moment story by Newbery Medalist Stead, making her picture book debut. Zhang (Emergency Quarters) works in close, spidery ballpoint lines and splashes of color to capture the
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