Click on a title to view its bookstore listing:
Novels
- Are
You Alone on Purpose, Houghton Mifflin (1994), reprint edition
forthcoming from Penguin/Puffin (2007)
- The
Killer's Cousin, Random House/Delacorte (1998)
- Locked
Inside, Random House/Delacorte (2000)
- Black
Mirror, Penguin Putnam/Dial (2001)
- Double
Helix, Penguin Putnam/Dial (2004)
- The
Rules of Survival, Penguin Putnam/Dial (2006)
- Impossible, Penguin/Dial (to come, September,
2008)
Short Stories
- “Rebecca,” in the collection Twice
Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork, Scott
Hunt (illustrator), Dutton/Penguin (2006)
Beckybek discovered the photo in the pocket of
Daddy’s big old blue flannel shirt. She’d known—although
neither Daddy nor Mommy had explicitly forbidden it—that it
was probably a Bad Thing to prowl through their bureau drawers. But
she felt entitled to be bad.
- “War Game,” in the collection Twelve
Shots: Outstanding Short Stories about Guns, edited by Harry
Mazer, Random House/Delacorte (1997)
What I did to Lije. It might have seemed ... okay,
in some ways it was cruel; I'll give you that. But I had to do it.
It was important. Okay?
You don't see? Fine. I'll explain.
- “Shortcut,” in the collection On
the Fringe, edited by Donald R.Gallo, Penguin Putnam/Dial
(2001)
Thursday afternoon. Last period. Eighth-grade
science lab. Ms. Davies was supervising the cleaning of pipettes and
beakers, but Lacey had already washed her stuff. She sat with her
hands tightly entwined in her lap, her jacket on, her eye on the clock.
She was silent; she had no one to talk to anyway.
She was plotting her route out.
Essays
- “Working
With Fear” is available on The
Horn Book web site, Sept/Oct, 2006.
- “Writing Suspense for Teens: My Three Rules” in Booklist,
May, 2004.
- “The
Subconscious and the Writing Process” is available on The
Horn Book web site, Jan/Feb, 2001. Note that this essay was written
in reaction to the fascinating essay ‘Blood
from a Stone’ by Jennifer Armstrong. Check out Jennifer's
blog. Who'd a thought we'd end up friends? Two writing processes
could not possibly be more different.
- “Get Rid of the Parents? ” in Booklist,
July, 1999.
- “Experimental YA Fiction” in Booklist,
October, 1998.
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