Novels

• Are You Alone on Purpose, Houghton Mifflin (1994), reprint Penguin/Puffin (2007)
• The Killer's Cousin, Random House/Delacorte (1998), reprint Pengin/Puffin (2009)
• Locked Inside, Random House/Delacorte (2000), reprint Pengin/Puffin (2009)
• Black Mirror, Penguin Putnam/Dial (2001)
• Double Helix, Penguin Putnam/Dial (2004)
• The Rules of Survival, Penguin Putnam/Dial (2006)
• Impossible, Penguin/Dial (September, 2008)
• Extraordinary. Penguin/Dial (September, 2010)

Short Stories

“Who Do You Like?” in the collection Can You Keep a Secret: Ten Stories about Secrets, edited by Lois Metzger (Scholastic, 2007).

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“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.

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“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.

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“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. 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.