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Gail Giles

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Gail Giles is the author of six young adult novels. Her debut novel, Shattering Glass, was an ALA Best of the Best Book, a Book Sense 76 selection, and a Booklist Top 10 Mystery for Youth selection. The novel is about an high school boy named Simon Glass that is helped to become one of the most popular dogs in school by other students. Her second novel, Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters, was an ALA Top 10 Quick pick (2003) and a Book Sense 76 selection. Her third novel, Playing in Traffic, is an epic story about a boy trying to help a gothic girl.

She is a former high school teacher who grew up in Texas and now lives there happily with her husband, two dogs, and three cats. Gail has one son and two grandsons.

It's all because of those birds

I can't write lately. I'm obsessed with birds. Angry Birds. Yes, THOSE angry birds and those, arrogant green pigs that smile when I can't kill them.

I gotta get out more.
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Published on December 30, 2010 19:14
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Right Behind You

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Dead Girls Don't Write Letters

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Dark Song

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Playing in Traffic

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“I figured out that I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. Like you live with a scar or a limp or whatever. You always know it's there. It reminds you never to let yourself do anything so stupid and horrible and wrong again. I step out of my rut, step again, and keep stepping. (277)”
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“Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. (121)”
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“Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?”
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