Deborah Wiles is the author of two picture books, "One Wide Sky" and "Freedom Summer," and four middle-grade novels: "Love," "Ruby Lavender," "Each Little Bird That Sings," (a 2005 National Book Award Finalist) "The Aurora County All-Stars" and "Countdown," book one of The Sixties Trilogy. Book two, "Revolution," was published in 2014 and is long-listed for the National Book Award.

Deborah’s work has received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, the PEN/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award. She has taught writing workshops to thousands of children and teachers all over the country. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she grows the world’s most beautiful zinnias, climbs Stone Mountain and avoids the Atlanta traffic.

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