Two other short story collections which contain high school characters whose lives overlap are Golden Girl and Other Stories and Glory Days and Other Stories by Gillian Chan.

Each book contains five short stories about students attending a fictional high school, Elmwood High. Like Graveyard Girl, each story is told from the perspective of a different adolescent, and, also like Lewis's work, major characters in one story appear as minor characters in other stories.

Individual stories in Graveyard Girl may also find complementary stories in other collections. For example, Tish's enormous challenge in revealing her love for Alex in "You Never Knew" is parallel to the situation in "Will You Kiss Me?" by Marnie Woodrow, one of seven true stories in Nerves out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls, edited by Susan Musgrave.

The literary idea of encountering characters at...