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Goodbye Stranger

by Rebecca Stead

Hardcover, 289 pages, Random House Childrens Books, List Price: $16.99 |

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Three best friends — a haunted accident survivor, a girl who faces a difficult choice to please the boy she likes and a girl who claims she can see through everyone's games — find their resolve to avoid fighting tested during their seventh-grade year.

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August 4, 2015 • Newbery Medal-winning author Rebecca Stead says her latest, Goodbye Stranger, is about love and how it helps a trio of seventh-grade girls stay friends through the challenges of middle school.

The Bonds Of Friendship Stay Strong In 'Stranger'

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