Liar & spy

Description:

When seventh grader Georges (the S is silent) moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safer's first spy recruit. His assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives in the apartment upstairs. But as Safer becomes more demanding, Georges starts to wonder: how far is too far to go for your only friend?

subjects: Juvenile fiction,  Middle schools,  Family life,  Spies,  Schools,  Fiction,  Social Issues,  Families,  Apartment houses,  Children's fiction,  Spies, fiction,  Apartment houses, fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Schools, fiction,  Brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction,  JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / General (see also headings under Family),  nyt:chapter-books=2012-08-26,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed

Places: Brooklyn