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Deborah Wiles

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Deborah Wiles is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including the beloved Love, Ruby Lavender and two National Book Award finalists–Each Little Bird That Sings and Revolution. Her first picture book, Freedom Summer, received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. She is also an NAACP Book Award finalist, E.B. White Award winner, Golden Kite Award winner, Jane Addams Peace Award Finalist, and recipient of a PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship. Her most recent novel is for young adults, Kent State. Her newest picture book, Simple Thanks, was published in 2024. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. You can visit her on the web at deborahwiles.com, write with her at Storybelly.com, and follow her on social media platforms a ...more

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Writers Lab: Our First Zine Project!

Morning, Lab Coats! Morning, Everyone. Lots to get to today!

The saying goes, “Curiosity killed the cat.” I say:

Curiosity is the Mother of All Gifts.

Without it, how do we learn to roll over, to walk, to collect rocks (and put them up our noses), to ask questions (my three-year-old grandgirl — and every three-year-old I’ve ever known: “WHY?”), to survive?

I just made up that sentence about curiosity

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Deborah Wiles’s books

Average rating: 4.03 · 38,471 ratings · 5,851 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	Countdown (The Sixties Trilogy, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 10,909 ratings — published 2010 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Each Little Bird that Sings 4.11 avg rating — 7,850 ratings — published 2005 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love, Ruby Lavender 4.07 avg rating — 4,898 ratings — published 2001 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kent State 3.95 avg rating — 4,901 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revolution (The Sixties Trilogy, #2) 4.09 avg rating — 4,189 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles (Goodreads Author), Jerome Lagarrigue (Illustrator) 4.47 avg rating — 2,939 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Aurora County All-Stars 3.81 avg rating — 1,342 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anthem (The Sixties Trilogy, #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 590 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Long Line of Cakes 3.90 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are All Under One Wide Sky by Deborah Wiles (Goodreads Author), Andrea Stegmaier (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.78 avg rating — 243 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Standing Up to Hate: The Charlottesville Clergy Collective and the Lessons from August 12, 2017

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“The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you”
― Deborah Wiles, Countdown

tags: fears, inspirational

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“There are always scary things happening in the world. There are always wonderful things happening. And it's up to you to decide how you're going to approach the world...how you're going to live in it, and what you're going to do."

—Jo Ellen Chapman”
― Deborah Wiles, Countdown

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“This is how it works. Everything is connected. Every choice matters. Every person is vital, and valuable, and worthy of respect.”
― Deborah Wiles, Revolution

tags: civil-rights-act-of-1964, civil-rights-movement, freedom-summer

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Which book would you give the 2015 Newbery award to?

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Brown Girl Dreaming Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

42 votes 35.0%

The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

13 votes 10.8%

Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin

12 votes 10.0%

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

10 votes 8.3%

West of the Moon by Margi Preus

9 votes 7.5%

El Deafo by Cece Bell

5 votes 4.2%

The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm

5 votes 4.2%

Revolution by Deborah Wiles

5 votes 4.2%

Half a Chance by Cynthia Lord

5 votes 4.2%

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming

3 votes 2.5%

Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

3 votes 2.5%

A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd

3 votes 2.5%

Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald

3 votes 2.5%

The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage

1 vote 0.8%

Nest by Esther Ehrlich

1 vote 0.8%

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“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self-interest.”
― John Glenn

tags: altruism, devotion, self-sacrifice, wisdom

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