Bob

Wendy Mass, Rebecca Stead

Feiwel & Friends, 2018 - Juvenile Fiction - 201 pages

It’s been five years since Livy and her family have visited Livy’s grandmother in Australia. Now that she’s back, Livy has the feeling she’s forgotten something really, really important about Gran’s house.

It turns out she’s right.

Bob, a short, greenish creature dressed in a chicken suit, didn’t forget Livy, or her promise. He’s been waiting five years for her to come back, hiding in a closet like she told him to. He can’t remember who—or what—he is, where he came from, or if he even has a family. But five years ago Livy promised she would help him find his way back home. Now it’s time to keep that promise.

Clue by clue, Livy and Bob will unravel the mystery of where Bob comes from, and discover the kind of magic that lasts forever.

Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead, two masterminds of classic, middle-grade fiction come together to craft this magical story about the enduring power of friendship.

This title has Common Core connections.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 12
• Section 3: 19
• Section 4: 47
• Section 5: 64
• Section 6: 71
• Section 7: 91
• Section 8: 98
• Section 9: 99
• Section 10: 114
• Section 11: 123
• Section 12: 132
• Section 13: 139
• Section 14: 140
• Section 15: 141
• Section 16: 145
• Section 17: 146
• Section 18: 153
• Section 19: 155
• Section 20: 156
• Section 21: 164
• Section 22: 171
• Section 23: 172
• Section 24: 179
• Section 25: 192
• Section 26: 193

About the author

Wendy Mass was born in Livingston, New Jersey on January 17, 1967. She received a B. A. in English from Tufts University. She worked as a book editor at numerous publishing houses in New York City and Connecticut and co-created a teenage literary magazine called Writes of Passage. She has written several nonfiction books for teenagers including Stonehenge, Readings on Night, John Cabot: Early Explorer, and Ray Bradbury: Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her fiction books include Leap Day, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall, Every Soul a Star, 11 Birthdays, Finally, and The Candymakers. A Mango-Shaped Space won the American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award in 2004. She wrote the storyline for an episode of the television show Monk, entitled "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theatre," which aired during the show's second season. Rebecca Stead is the New York Times bestselling author of When You Reach Me, Liar & Spy, First Light, Goodbye Stranger, Bob, and, most recently, The List of Things That Will Not Change. Her books have been awarded the Newbery Medal, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Fiction and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Rebecca lives in New York City, where she is always on the lookout for her next story idea.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bob
• Authors: Wendy Mass, Rebecca Stead
• Illustrated by: Nicholas Gannon
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Feiwel & Friends, 2018
• ISBN: 1250166624, 9781250166623
• Length: 201 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Family / Grandparents; Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational; Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy / General; Juvenile Fiction / Imagination & Play; Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Places / Australia & Oceania; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Friendship