Deborah Wiles

Welcome!

I'm still working on this website! One day I will have it all figured out and will suffer from postpartum depression. In the meantime, click here to read about the new book, The Aurora County All-Stars, and to read chapter one. I was on tour for most of September -- Mississippi, the Carolinas, and the entire west coast. As always, you can click on the book covers to go to a new page where you'll learn more about each book. Happy reading -- and thanks for visiting.

News:

I am updating this website this summer. Stay tuned!

ALL-STARS has won the California Young Reader Medal -- Hooray!! Yahoo, California Young Readers and Teachers!! Thanks so much.

ALL-STARS is a SIBA Book Award Finalist! Thank you Southern Booksellers! You Rock!

LITTLE BIRD has won the Alabama Book Award. Thanks so much to the book award committee and Alabama Readers! As I said in my acceptance speech, "I am a child of Alabama. I am a child of the South."

I have a story in Be Careful What You Wish For, a new anthology of stories published by Scholastic Book Clubs. The title is "Star Light, Star Bright."

Little Bird is now on 24 state book award lists voted on by children!

Little Bird is a 2005 National Book Award Finalist, a Golden Kite Honor Book, winner of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award, and the Bank Street Fiction Award. You can find the Scholastic Literature Circle Guide for Little Bird here..

Freedom Summer is the winner of a Coretta Scott King/Steptoe Award, the Ezra Jack Keats Award, and the Simon Wiesenthal Award.

Ruby Lavender is an ALA and NCTE Notable Book, winner of a Parent's Guide Children's Media Award, one of the New York Public Library's "100 Titles for Reading and Sharing," and has appeared on 26 state book award lists voted on by children.

One Wide Sky has lullaby music to go with its 88 counting words, and is a Children's Book of the Month Club selection.

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