What Happened to Cass McBride? by Gail Giles

Author: Gail Giles

Reading level: Young Adult

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Rated 7/10

Kyle Kirby has planned a cruel and unusual revenge on Cass McBride, the most popular girl in school, for the death of his brother David. He digs a hole. Drugs Cass. Kidnaps her. Puts her in a box-underground. He buries her alive. But Kyle makes a fatal error: Cass knows the power of words. She uses fear as her weapon to keep her nemesis talking - and to keep herself breathing during the most harrowing 48 hours of her life.

A vivid, complex, and insightful work of suspense, this fast-paced psychological thriller is "Gail Giles at her best" says Mary E. Pearson, author of A Room on Lorelei Street.

MYREVIEW
This was an ok book,nothing too exciting, at least not for me. It was a fast paced and easy read,I'm sure most will like it. Kyle's little brother David has comitted suicide and Kyle is looking for someone to blame. He blames it on Cass McBride,the popular girl at school(whom David asked out and was turned down by), and kidnaps her. The police go to all her family and friends to learn about who Cass is and why someone would kidnap her. Meanwhile Kyle has seeked his revenge by burying Cass alive. They soon get to talking and Kyle discovers it's not Cass fault but someone elses the whole time.

Dead Girls Don't Write Letters by Gail Giles

Author: Gail Giles

Reading level: Young Adult

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Rated 8/10

 Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died out of town in a fire months earlier.

MY REVIEW
I liked this book, it was fast paced, and short for those that don't like long books. It was a little scary though,I could never imagine losing someone in my family and then have someone coming to me claiming to be them. I would have loved to read more into Sunny's story, about what happens after she gets the letter at the end,for a minute towards the end I was beginning to think Sunny did it all herself. Sunny gets a letter in the mail one day addressed to her and her family supposedly from her dead sister Jazz. The letter had said there was a mistake and Jazz had never died in the apartment fire. Soon her mom and dad are getting ready for Jazz to return home, but when she does it isn't Jazz. Sunny and her dad can automatically tell it's not Jazz,but Sunny's mom is beside herself with happiness. Sunny starts getting clues real quick on this imposter Jazz and learns the truth about the girl pretending to be her.