When seventh grader Georges moves into a Brooklyn apartment he meets Safer, a twelve year old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy. Safer asks Georges to help him track down the mysterious black-dressing, suitcase-bearing Mr. X. Is he murdering people and carting the bodies out in the suitcases? A gum wrapper alerts the spies to the presence-absence of Mr. X, and a lobby video cam to his return. Safer and his sibling were aptly named after their predilections and became known as Pigeon and Candy. Georges quits the spy game because he doesn't want to do anything illegal; his mom is absent; and he is being bullied at school. There is a great ending to an intriguing story.
"Life really is a bunch of nows, one after the other."
"Look at the big picture...how all the little things don't matter in the long run."
"boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds."
Mark Twain Award Preliminary Nominee 2014-15
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