Books by Gail Giles and Complete Book Reviews
Gail Giles, Author . Millbrook/Roaring Brook $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7613-1581-0
In this suspenseful, disturbing debut novel, a high school clique's plans to make over a social outcast go tragically awry. Quotes at the opening of each chapter foretell the disaster to come. Thaddeus R. Steward IV, nicknamed "Young,"...
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Gail Giles, Author . Roaring Brook $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7613-1727-2
As she did with her first novel, Shattering Glass, Giles once again proves that she knows intimately the workings of the adolescent mind, even if the ending here may raise more questions than it answers. "Things had been getting a little better...
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Gail Giles, Author . S&S $6.99 (215p) ISBN 978-0-689-85800-0
An out-of-state transfer student ascends to alpha male, and his high school clique's plan to make over a social outcast go tragically awry, in what PW
called "a suspenseful, disturbing novel." Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Gail Giles, Author . Roaring Brook/Brodie $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-59643-005-1
In her third suspenseful, psychologically gripping novel, Giles (Shattering Glass
) chronicles the torturous relationship between 17-year-old Matt, who "worked hard at being inconspicuous," and classmate Skye, the "Gothgirl" who is...
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Gail Giles, Author . Simon Pulse $6.99 (126p) ISBN 978-0-689-86624-1
Sunny is stunned to receive a letter from her sister, Jazz, who was supposedly killed in an apartment fire. But the girl who soon arrives on her family's doorstep is definitely not Jazz. PW
wrote, "Unraveling the mystery of this girl's
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Gail Giles, Author . Little, Brown $16.99 (212p) ISBN 978-0-316-01703-9
From the first paragraph, Giles's (Shattering Glass
) story grabs readers' attention, and doesn't let go: "She's dead, isn't she? If she was alive, I wouldn't be handcuffed to a table in an interview room. You'd take...
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Gail Giles, Author . Little, Brown $15.99 (292p) ISBN 978-0-316-16636-2
Giles (What Happened to Cass McBride?
) returns with another riveting nail-biter. Kip and his father live a spartan life in Alaska until nine-year-old Kip, in a jealous rage, sets a neighboring boy afire, killing him. Put in a psychiatric hospital...
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Gail Giles, Little, Brown, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-06886-4
Fifteen-year-old Ames Ford lives a charmed life in Boulder with her parents and her beloved younger sister, Chrissy. "If Mom weren't a little overcontrolling sometimes—okay, all of the time—our family would've been gag-worthy perfect," she remarks....
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Gail Giles. Candlewick, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6267-7
Following graduation from their high school’s special education track, two girls become wards of the state and are placed in an apartment where they live independently and cook and clean for their neighbor/employer, an older woman named Elizabeth....
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