Deborah Wiles is the award-winning author of Each Little Bird that Sings, a National Book Award Finalist; Love, Ruby Lavender, an ALA Notable Children's Book, a Children's Book Sense 76 Pick, an NCTE Notable Book for the Language Arts, and a New York Public Library Book for Reading and Sharing; Freedom Summer, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; and One Wide Sky. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Judith Ivey is an American actress, voice-over artist, and director. She's appeared in numerous Broadway plays, including two for which she won Tony Awards as Best Featured Actress in a Play: Steaming in 1983 and Hurlyburly in 1985. Her narrations include The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells and My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt.
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Who is Ruby Lavender? She used to have a fun life, until her Yoo-hoo-drinking, pink muumuu-wearing, best friend of a grandmother up and left for Hawaii to spend the summer with her new (smelly) grandbaby. Now Ruby is stuck in boring old Halleluia, Mississ... SEE MORE