PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY

Giles (What Happened to Cass McBride?) returns with another riveting nail-biter. . . . This story explores, with sympathy and compassion, the nature of guilt, atonement and forgiveness. As Giles delicately handles these delicate issues and questions ("Do you get to kill someone and say, 'Oh, really sorry now,' and everything is fine?"), readers should be glued to Wade's story, hoping for his redemption. Ages 15-up. (Sept.)

KIRKUS

. . .This powerful and moving novel of self discovery gives no easy answers. . .Thought-provoking and heart-wrenching.

SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

Reluctant readers will be drawn to the story's accessibility, and many teens will be pulled in by the larger questions the novel poses about innocence and acceptance. . . .this book will be a hit with Giles's fans.—Lynn Rashid, Marriots Ridge High School, Marriotsville, MD

THRUSHMETAL REVIEW

. . .Right Behind You is Kip’s own Beowulf – told in three distinct parts – in which he must slay his own monsters. There is a constant uneasiness driving the prose, which forces readers to continue, much as if waiting for an inevitable disaster to occur, unable to intervene.

Pair this, and other Gail Giles books, ...at the top of the list when it comes to psychological, suspenseful, well-researched modern realistic fiction for teens.