Kathleen Glasgow

Writes about teenage girls in genuine crisis without arranging a rescue.

Girl in Pieces opens with Charlie in a treatment facility, unable to speak, and follows her out into a life that does not become safe simply because the book has started. Glasgow has been open that it draws on her own history. How to Make Friends with the Dark handles a mother's sudden death and the foster system that follows.

The books draw regular challenges in American schools, which tends to be a reliable signal that teenagers are reading them.