Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Pull of Gravity | 2013 | Buy |
| The Summer of Letting Go | 2014 | Buy |
| The Memory of Things | 2016 | Buy |
| In Sight of Stars | 2018 | Buy |
| Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me | 2020 | Buy |
| Seven Clues to Home | 2020 | Buy |
| Consider the Octopus | 2022 | Buy |
Gae Polisner is an American writer of young adult and middle grade fiction. She published her debut novel, The Pull of Gravity, in 2013. The book follows a teenager dealing with the death of a friend while on a road trip inspired by John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. She followed it with The Summer of Letting Go (2014), about a girl spending the summer at the Jersey Shore while haunted by guilt over her younger brother’s near-drowning years earlier.
Her young adult novels often deal with difficult subjects. The Memory of Things (2016) is set on September 11, 2001, as a Brooklyn teenager finds a dazed girl on the bridge during the Twin Towers collapse. In Sight of Stars (2018) follows a boy in a psychiatric facility as he works through the grief of losing his father. Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me (2020) is a coming-of-age story about a girl whose friendship is disrupted by an older boy. Her more recent books have shifted toward middle grade readers. Seven Clues to Home (2020), co-written with Nora Raleigh Baskin, is a dual-narrated mystery, and Consider the Octopus (2022) follows two kids on a research vessel in the Pacific Ocean.