Books with author Galloway

Glen becomes the only witness to the gruesome murder of a woman living in his house, but telling someone about it is nearly impossible since he’s a ghost. He finds himself reluctantly involved and desperately hoping he can silence the victim’s ghost, who just won’t stop haunting him. The dead woman’s spirit becomes more volatile each day, and her hints about her killer’s identity are an ambiguous game of charades. Glen struggles to find ways to pass along her messages to keep the investigation moving forward. Unfortunately, it seems hardly a soul can hear his clues, except for one. After forty years as a ghost, Glen is mysteriously yanked away from the peaceful house he’s always occupied. He suddenly finds himself surrounded by the living, and facing a very different world from the one he’d left long ago. He hopes that unraveling the truth behind the murdered woman will somehow lead him back to his proper place. As he races to put together pieces of the crime and find ways to communicate to the living, he begins to fear there might be an even darker place that lies beyond being dead.

"Anna Cayne had moved here in August, just before our sophomore year in high school, but by February she had, one by one, killed everyone in town." Anna—who prefers to be called Anastasia—is a slightly spooky and complicated high school girl with a penchant for riddles, Houdini tricks, and ghost stories. She spends much of her time writing obituaries for every living person in town. She is unlike anyone the narrator has ever known, and they make an unlikely, though happy, pair. Then a week before Valentine's Day, Anna disappears, leaving behind only a dress placed neatly near a hole in the frozen river, and a string of unanswered questions. Desperate to find her, or at least to comprehend what happened and why, the narrator begins to reconstruct the past five months. And soon the fragments of curious events, intimate conversations, secrets, and peculiar letters (and the anonymous messages that continue to arrive) coalesce into haunting and surprising revelations that may implicate friends, relatives, and even Anna herself.

Smiley Shark isa thoroughly delightful and nicely imaginative color picture book about a shark who loves to smile, yet finds that his scary teeth frighten all other sea creatures away. But when a net captures all the fish and sea animals, only Smiley Shark has the sharp teeth needed to save the day! An enjoyable story with bright and cartoony artwork. -Midwest Book Review

"Finnie Walsh will forever remain in my daily thoughts, not only because of the shocking circumstances of his absurd demise, but because he managed to misunderstand what was truly important even though he was right about almost everything else." So begins Steven Galloway’s critically acclaimed first novel. The story is told by Paul Woodward, Finnie's best friend and the only good child in a long line of delinquents. Hockey is one of the few things they have in common: Finnie’s family is rich and snobbish, while Paul’s father works the night shift at the local mill owned by Finnie’s father. One fateful day, the boys noisily play hockey in the Woodwards’ driveway, keeping Paul's father awake. This seemingly innocent activity triggers a shattering chain of events. Finnie Walsh has been compared to the work of John Irving, but Galloway’s voice, most particularly his unforgettable portrait of the title character, is uniquely his own.

Nipper, a loveable crab, has huge, clumsy claws. No matter what games he plays with his friends Nipper’s claws always get in his way. So the friends decide to play hide-and-seek—something they can all do together, but Nipper’s claws ruin his hiding place! So instead, Nipper looks for his friends while they hide. He finds Turtle and Jellyfish, but there’s no sign of Octopus. Until Nipper sees that Octopus is tangled tight in the weeds. Now it’s up to Nipper to rescue Octopus with his big claws! This companion title to Fidgety Fish and Smiley Shark features the same bold, delightful illustrations, humorous text and is peppered with onomatopoeia kids really love.