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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

Writers Lab: “A Good, Quiet Set of Directions”

And now may I direct your attention to directions.

Evening, Lab Coats!


That’s something I find I like to do when I have a few minutes to myself—I don’t know about you. How to put on furniture polish, transfer patterns with a hot iron, take off corns—I don’t care what it is. I don’t have to do it. Sometimes I’d rather sit still a minute and read a good quiet set of directions through than any s

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Average rating: 4.03 · 39,295 ratings · 5,974 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors
Countdown (The Sixties Tril...

3.90 avg rating — 11,081 ratings — published 2010 — 22 editions
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Each Little Bird that Sings

4.12 avg rating — 7,958 ratings — published 2005
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Kent State

3.93 avg rating — 5,215 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions
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Love, Ruby Lavender

4.07 avg rating — 4,975 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions
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Revolution (The Sixties Tri...

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The Aurora County All-Stars

3.80 avg rating — 1,363 ratings — published 2007 — 19 editions
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Anthem (The Sixties Trilogy...

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A Long Line of Cakes

3.91 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions
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“The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you”
― Deborah Wiles, Countdown

“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

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

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