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August 2013

New in Paperback

August 2013

August's roundup of New in Paperback includes LIAR & SPY by Rebecca Stead, in which seventh grader Georges moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, meets Safer, a 12-year-old self-appointed spy, and becomes Safer's first spy recruit; Emily Rodda's THE GOLDEN DOOR, where Rye is too young to become a Volunteer to fight the ferocious flying creatures that raid the walled city of Weld in the night, but his brothers are among the lost and he must find them; and a special movie tie-in edition of THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM --- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, where the Watson family decides to take a trip to visit Grandma and heads to Birmingham, Alabama, toward one of the darkest moments in America's history.