About the Author

Rebecca Stead has written six novels for young people: WHEN YOU REACH ME (A bestseller and winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Fiction) ; THE LIST OF THINGS THAT WILL NOT CHANGE (A 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 Book Review 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) ; and BOB (co-written with Wendy Mass) . Rebecca lives in New York City with her family.