
When Georges moves into a new apartment block he meets Safer a twelve-year-old self-appointed spy Soon Georges has become his spy recruit His first assignment? To track the mysterious Mr X who lives in the flat upstairs But as Safer becomes more demanding Georges starts to wonder what is a game & what is a lie? How far is too far to go for your only friend? Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize & shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 'A joy to read' Independent ' Rebecca Stead makes writing this well look easy' Philip Ardagh Guardian ' Exactly what I would have wanted to read in my early teens It feels sophisticated & clever & knowing without being too grown-up & dark' Viv Groskop Observer When You Reach Me was a New York Times bestseller won the Newbery Medal & was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize