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She aims to write books about social issues that connect with a teen audience in a realistic way. In , she co-authored No Returns , the first in a series, with Deb Vanasse.

Gail Giles is an American writer of young adult fiction.

Giles is a former high school teacher who grew up in Texas and now lives there with her husband, three dogs, and three cats. She has one son and two grandsons. She graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University. She studies English, speech, and drama. 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.

It is about a girl named Sunny whose older sister, Jazz, has recently died.

Born in Galveston, Texas, raised in LaMarque, Texas, went to school in Nacogdoches, Texas, lived for years in Lake Jackson, Texas, taught high school in.

She receives a letter in the mail supposedly from her sister. 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. In September , 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, It features a boy band that accidentally makes a deal with the devil.