• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2011
• Publisher: Sourcebooks – Teen Fire
• Release Date: June 2011
• ISBN (hardcover): TBD
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

Stupid Fast is the story of Felton Reinstein, a fifteen-turning-sixteen-year-old in a rural Wisconsin town whose sudden growth spurt turns him from a small, sad, jumpy, picked-on kid (called squirrel nut) to a powerful athlete.  In Felton’s voice, speaking from his bedroom in the middle of the night, we learn of his broken home, his mother’s intensifying depression, his little brother’s pirate-clothed struggles, and the seeming root of all trouble – his father’s suicide ten years earlier, against the back-drop of his growing athletic success, his… Continue reading

• Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2009
• Publisher: Flux
• Release Date: March 1, 2009
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

The stories people tell are always about the things we left behind, and about the things we wish we could do again. The real story isn't about what you know; it's about what you wish you knew then. When my brother and my best friend fell in love-that was the end of everything I knew. Fraternal twins Nadio and Noelle share a close connection-and as Noelle's best friend since they were five, Keeley Shipley fit perfectly into their world. But everything changes after Keeley spends the summer before junior year… Continue reading

• Publication Season/Year: Winter 2009
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press (Griffin)
• Release Date: December 23, 2008
• ISBN (paperback): 031238369X (isbn13: 9780312383695)

Perfect Parker Fadley isn't so perfect anymore. She's quit the cheerleading squad, she's dumped her perfect boyfriend, and she's failing school. Her parents are on constant suicide watch and her counselors think she's playing games... but what they don't know, the real reason for this whole mess, isn't something she can say out loud. It isn't even something she can say to herself. A horrible thing has happened and it just might be her fault. If she can just remove herself from everybody--be totally alone--then… Continue reading