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Praise for the writing of Rebecca Stead:

fantasy adventure, global warming, climate change, science fiction ,dystopia, childrens fantasy

	The List of Things That Will Not Change	When You Reach Me	Goodbye Stranger	Liar & Spy

Customer Reviews	865	6,144	962	1,310
Read all the bestselling books from Newbery Award-winning author Rebecca Stead!	EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now.	A thought-provoking mystery with a mind-blowing twist.	This brilliant, New York Times bestselling novel explores multiple perspectives on the bonds and limits of friendship.	The instant New York Times bestselling novel about spies, games, and friendship.

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A Junior Library Guild Selection
A Book Sense Children’s Pick
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
A Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year—Outstanding Merit
An IRA-CBC Notable Book
A Parents’ Choice Award Winner
Named to Multiple State Award Lists

“Peter and Thea are vividly realized. . . . Gracehope itself is sketched with sure strokes, its icy setting and its matriarchal social structure fresh and believable.”—The Horn Book Magazine

“Stead’s debut novel rests on an intriguing premise. . . . It is a testament to the storytelling that the existence of this parallel world and the convergence of Peter and Thea’s stories, told in separate chapters, are both credible and absorbing. Young readers will find this a journey worth taking.”—Publishers Weekly

About the Author

REBECCA STEAD is the author of When You Reach Me, which was a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction, and Liar & Spy, which was also a New York Times bestseller, won the Guardian Prize for Children’s Fiction, and was on multiple state master lists and best of the year lists. She also wrote Goodbye Stranger, which was a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book for Fiction and a New York Times bestseller. She is also the author of First Light, which was nominated for many state awards. Her latest book, The List of Things that Will Not Change, has received eight starred reviews. She lives in New York City with her family. Visit her online at rebeccasteadbooks.com and on Twitter @rebstead.

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One

Most boys his age had never touched paper. There was little left. Paper was reserved for fine drawing and important documents. Mattias knew even before he could skate that if he were to harm any of it, if he were to crease one corner of one sheet, the consequences would be serious. But Mattias could not resist his mother’s drawing table. He loved the drawers and panels that opened almost without a sound, the bright vials of dye, the immaculate brushes on their small rack, the smooth wooden box of charcoal. And although he was a very obedient boy in almost every other way, he regularly explored the contents of the table when he found himself alone with it. Mattias knew its every measure, including the shape of the black dye stain that had dried inside one drawer before he was born. And each time he approached the table, he expected to find it exactly as he had always found it before.
Today he found something new.
It was a thick paper envelope, closed but unsealed, underneath his mother’s working sketches. Mattias unwound the string closure slowly, being careful to remember the length that should be left hanging when he tied it again. Inside was a square of paper unlike anything Mattias had ever seen. One side of the square glowed with an image in color, almost as if someone had frozen a moment in time and flattened it, capturing every detail. Even his mother, considered the most talented artist now alive, couldn’t create anything like this. Mattias turned it carefully in his hands, holding the square by its sharp corners. It was an image of two women. Sisters, he thought. And there was something else–a glowing blur behind them.
The sun.

Seven Years Later

A headache, Peter thought as he lay in bed with one arm thrown over his eyes, is something you have to experience to understand. No one can describe a headache to someone who has never had one. He rolled to one side and reached for the little spiral notebook on his night table.
Peter’s mother had gotten headaches for as long as he could remember. They sometimes lasted for days, during which she sat in the red chair next to the pull-out couch where his parents slept. She didn’t eat, or laugh, or make the “proper supper” she otherwise insisted upon. She hardly got up at all. “She’s gone away again,” his father would say. “But she’ll be back.” It happened maybe twice a year.
Everyone said how much Peter was like his mother– their skin that was nearly paper white, their all-over freckles, their wavy hair (hers dark, his blond like his father’s), even the way they sneezed (always twice), and laughed (very quietly, after one loud sort of bark). So Peter had always assumed that, like his mother, he would get headaches one day, and that, when he did, they would be headaches just like hers.
Peter paged through the worn notebook. It had his friends’ phone numbers in it, and the names of some video games he wanted if his parents ever let him get a video game, and the address of a company in Oregon that sold old radio parts for almost no money, and a bunch of other things. He flipped to the inside back cover, where he had made a series of slashes.
Just after his twelfth birthday, Peter’s mother began asking him whether he had a headache. She had never asked him that before, and he couldn’t help thinking it was strange she had to ask at all. Wouldn’t it be obvious when he had a headache? Wouldn’t he, too, sit in the living room and never smile or get hungry? But she kept asking, every week or two, always smiling carefully, as if she were expecting bad news. So they waited, together.
Peter got his first headache a few months later. He knew right away what it was, and three things surprised him about it. First, it lasted only a few hours. Second, although it hurt some, he was able to eat the same salt-and-vinegar potato chips he bought after school every day. Third, he didn’t tell his mother about it.
The only person he told was Miles. He and Miles had been in the same class every year since kindergarten. They knew everything about each other. For instance, Peter knew that Miles only pretended to hate the two stepsisters who lived uptown with Miles’s father and stepmother. The truth was that Miles liked them, and that he liked his Monday and Friday nights at his dad’s– he liked how the apartment was full of life, with friends coming and going, and teasing at dinner, and the way they always ate oranges and popcorn while they watched TV together.
And Miles knew that Peter was afraid to tell his mother about his first headache because it had brought him a little closer to knowing what he had already half-known for years: that his mother’s headaches were not headaches at all, but something else entirely. Something she didn’t want to talk about. Something like sadness.
Then Peter had more headaches. He took the stub of a pencil from where he had wedged it into the spiral of his little notebook and made a mark next to the others. He counted to himself, slowly. His ninth. In a month. He replaced the notebook on the table and rolled over so he could look through the skylight next to his bed.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yearling
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 14, 2008
Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0440422221
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0440422228
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 12 years
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.87 x 7.63 inches
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 3 - 7
Best Sellers Rank: #241,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #817 in Children's Environment Books (Books)
- #5,951 in Fantasy for Children
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Rebecca Stead writes books for young people, including:

THE EXPERIMENT, a middle-grade novel (with aliens) NEW in 2025.

WHEN YOU REACH ME (NYT bestseller, 2010 Newbery Medal and Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Fiction);

THE LIST OF THINGS THAT WILL NOT CHANGE (A 2020 Time Magazine Top Ten Children's Book of the Year);

LIAR & SPY (Winner of the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction and a New York Times Notable Book for Children);

FIRST LIGHT (a Junior Library Guild Selection and a New York Public Library Best Book for Teens);

GOODBYE STRANGER (A New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Notable Book for Children);

ANYTHING, Illustrated by Caldecott-honoree Gracey Zhang (Six starred reviews and a JLG Selection)

And, co-written with Wendy Mass:

BOB and THE LOST LIBRARY (A #1 Indie pick and Amazon's Best Children's Book of 2023).

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