" Saddled with an embarrassing name, Georges is also dealing with a new apartment and starting 7th grade. His father lost his job, so the family has downsized and his mother works double shifts at the hospital. He meets Safer and his little sister Candy, two strange yet smart kids who don't go to school, and even though Safer has some crazy ideas, Georges feels comfortable in their big, homey apartment. Bullied at school, lonely at home, Georges deals with his reality but is unable to share the truth either with Safer or with himself, until he has to face the thing he is most afraid of in the whole world. Read attentively because this book contains a big plot twist. Another genuine, entrancing tale from Stead. Fabulous. 6th grade and up. "
— Phoebe, 2/14/2014