Deborah Wiles was born in Alabama and grew up in an Air Force family, moving many times but digging deep roots into the Mississippi soil of her extended family. She still travels "down South" today from her longtime home in Frederick, Maryland, where she lives with her family and works as a freelance writer. She also teaches writing and oral history workshops -- sharing with children how all history is really biography, and how every person's story is important. This is her first book.
John Henry swims better than anyone I know. He crawls like a catfish, blows bubbles like a swamp monster, but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me....
...This year’s books included “Island of the Blue Dolphins” by Scott O’Dell, “Love, Ruby Lavender” by Deborah Wiles and “Ungifted” by Gordan Korman. Other students, and their sponsors, participating in the event included, by elementary...
...books to commence Round 2 of this year?s battle. Ever since I read last year?s finalist, Countdown, by Deborah Wiles, the topic of nuclear weapons has been of great interest to me. To compare the two books is both an incredibly easy and hard task for me...
...books to commence Round 2 of this year?s battle. Ever since I read last year?s finalist, Countdown, by Deborah Wiles, the topic of nuclear weapons has been of great interest to me. To compare the two books is both an incredibly easy and hard task for me...
...the mythical creatures. Nathan Katzenberger, 11, fifth-grader at Linden Elementary School What book are you reading? Countdown by Deborah Wiles Favorite books? Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery and Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson ...
...the conference to speak and accept their awards. This year's conference will feature six authors and illustrators: Deborah Wiles has written four novels: Love, Ruby Lavender; Each Little Bird that Sings; Aurora County All Stars and most recently,...
...people of all ages, colors and ethnicities." Among the Foundation's recommendations are: Freedom Summer Written by Deborah Wiles, illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue (Atheneum, 2001) A touching story of two boys--one white, one black--who make sense of...
...people of all ages, colors and ethnicities." Among the Foundation's recommendations are: Freedom Summer Written by Deborah Wiles, illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue (Atheneum, 2001) A touching story of two boys—one white, one black—who make sense...
...on graduates from the colleges of Business, Education and Liberal Arts and Sciences. Christine Barnes, College of Education; Deborah Wiles, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and Briana “Bobbie” Watson, College of Business, are the featured...
...Ezra Jack Keats Foundation and the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi to Present 2013 Awards at Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Next April NEW YORK, Oct.� 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/...
...Ezra Jack Keats Foundation and the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi to Present 2013 Awards at Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Next April NEW YORK, Oct.� 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/...
...Ezra Jack Keats Foundation and the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi to Present 2013 Awards at Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Next April NEW YORK, Oct.� 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/...
...Ezra Jack Keats Foundation and the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi to Present 2013 Awards at Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Next April NEW YORK, Oct.� 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/...
...Ezra Jack Keats Foundation and the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi to Present 2013 Awards at Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Next April NEW YORK, Oct.� 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/...
...Ezra Jack Keats Foundation and the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi to Present 2013 Awards at Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Next April NEW YORK, Oct.� 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/...