Career
Her debut novel, Shattering Glass, was an American Library Association Best of the Best Book, a Book Sense 76 selection, and a Booklist Top 10 Mystery for Youth selection. The novel is about a high school boy named Simon Glass who is helped to become one of the most popular kids in school by other students, only to end in a tragic twist of fate. Her second novel, Dead Girls Don"t Write Letters, was an American Library Association Top 10 Quick pick (2003) and a Book Sense 76 selection.
lieutenant is about a girl named Sunny whose older sister, Jazz, has recently died.
Following the letter, things get stranger and stranger. Dead Girls Don"t Write Letters deals with profound physiological insight and provides the reader with much to ponder.
Giles" third novel, Playing in Traffic, is an epic story about a boy trying to help a gothic girl. Her fourth book, What Happened to Cass McBride, deals with teen problems.
lieutenant"s about crime, death, torture, and suicide.
In September 2007, she published another teen novel, Right Behind You, about a boy who struggles with guilt after making a horrible mistake. Dark Song, a fast-paced psychological thriller about a girl who falls hard for the wrong boy, was released on September 7, 2010. Number Returns, co-written with Deb Vanasse (Running Fox Books, 2014), is the first in a planned series, the Battleband Saga.
lieutenant features a boy band that accidentally makes a deal with the devil.
In a twist on the legend of Faust, the boys in the bands discover there"s more at stake than their fame.
