Burnout

This is a ghost story.

I am the ghost.

It’s the day after Halloween and Nan isn’t supposed to wake up like this anymore. Confused and bruised.  Head crudely shaved. Wearing someone else’s costume. Blank spots where her memories should be. She’s different now, so far from the drunk girl who hit bottom in the Nan-apocalypse and bounced right back up into the good-girl life. A clock is ticking. Something’s happened and if Nan doesn’t figure out, somebody is going to die.

“Stark, compelling, perceptive: a winner”- Kirkus, starred review

“[An] Exciting and fast paced thriller” – School Library Journal, starred review 

The Exile of Gigi Lane

I’m Gigi Lane, and you wish you were me.

If this were a book about anyone else, it would be a retro “Queen Bee falls from grace” story. But this is a book about Gigi Lane and this queen bee stings. 

 “…a very funny parody of the high school caste system” – Publishers Weekly

Sight

Drifter, Drifter’s gonna gettcha / His hair’s on fire and his eye’s are black / First snow’s coming and he’s coming back / He got Clarence and he’ll get you too/ Drifter, Drifter’s coming for you

A teenage psychic. The psychotic killer everyone though was gone. A mountain town full of secrets. The Drifter is back, and only Dylan can stop him.

“Readers will be riveted right through the chilling conclusion.” – Publishers Weekly

Skin

I’m telling you this because you didn’t ask. I’ve got it all here, growing like a tumor in my throat. I’m telling you because if I don’t, I will choke on it. I want to tell. It’s mine to tell. Even if you didn’t ask, you have it to hear it.

Fourteen-year-old Donnie’s older sister, Karen, has always been the one person in his life on whom he could totally depend. But as Karen slowly slips away in the grip of an eating disorder, Donnie finds himself alone in facing the trauma of his parents’ faltering marriage and his new life as an outcast at school.

“Riveting…Vrettos is a writer to watch” – Publishers Weekly

“A marvelous debut” – Kirkus, starred review

Best Friends for Never

After Hattie and her three best friends watch one of their classmates publicly defriended in the school cafeteria, they make a loyalty pact promising never to mistreat each other. But after Hattie unwittingly breaks the pact, her friends begin ignoring her. In fact, they literally don’t even know who she is anymore! Can Hattie figure out how to break the spell and make things right again?

“…will resonate with any young person struggling with being true to themselves” – Publishers Weekly