Tonight:
Countdown author to
discuss her latest book on life during the Cuban Missile Crisis
(Knoxville, TN) The University of Tennessee’s Center for Children’s
and Young Adult Literature welcomes author Deborah Wiles to the Hodges
Library Auditorium at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Wiles will be
discussing her newest book, Countdown, the story of twelve-year-old
Franny Chapman, who lives with her family in Washington, DC, during the days
surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis. The event is free and open to the
public.
Wiles is the author of two picture books: One Wide Sky and Freedom
Summer and three novels: Love, Ruby Lavender, Each Little Bird That Sings (a
National Book Award Finalist), and The Aurora County All-Stars. Next year, she
will publish Fallout, book one of "The Sixties Trilogy: Three novels of
the 1960s for young readers." She taught "Writing Techniques for
Teachers" at Towson University and has taught in the MFA in Writing
programs at Lesley University and Vermont College. She has taught personal
narrative writing for many years, to children and adults.
ABOUT CCYAL
The Center for Children's and Young Adult Literature at the University of
Tennessee believes that literature is essential to the literacy, learning,
social, emotional and aesthetic development of young people.
Guided by this belief, it is the mission of the Center to celebrate and promote
literature and to encourage reading through outreach to children and their
parents, to current and future teachers and librarians, to members of the
community, and to scholars and thinkers across disciplines. The Center is
housed in the School of Information Sciences, College of Communication and
Information at the University of Tennessee.
For more information about this program, please visit www.sis.utk.edu/ccyal.
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Joel Southern
Communications Specialist
School of Information Sciences
College of Communication and Information
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1345 Circle Park Drive, Suite 451
Knoxville, TN 37996-0341
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(865) 974-6727
jsouthern at utk dot edu
www.sis.utk.edu