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Deborah Wiles Books in Order

Deborah Wiles has written 14 books, published between 2001 and 2022. The first book is Freedom Summer (2001) and the newest is Bobby: A Story of Robert F. Kennedy (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
14
Published
2001–2022
Pages on record
2,770 in 11 of 14 books
Reading time
46–69 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,770 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 14 titles with a page count on record.

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Deborah Wiles is a children's book author, born May 5, 1953, in Mobile, Alabama. Each Little Bird That Sings, the second Wiles novel, was a 2005 National Book Award finalist, and the documentary novel Revolution reached the same shortlist in 2014. Wiles holds the 2004 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship and the 2005 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award. The catalogue lists 14 books from Freedom Summer (2001) to Bobby: A Story of Robert F. Kennedy (2022), including the Aurora County and Sixties Trilogy series.

How many Deborah Wiles books are there?

Deborah Wiles has 14 books, released between 2001 and 2022. They include 2 series and 8 titles listed outside any series.

Deborah Wiles Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 14 Deborah Wiles books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles, book 1 of the Aurora County series (2001)
  2. Cover of One Wide Sky by Deborah Wiles (2003)
  3. Cover of Hang the Moon by Deborah Wiles (2004)
  4. Cover of Each Little Bird that Sings by Deborah Wiles, book 2 of the Aurora County series (2005)
  5. Cover of The Aurora County All-Stars by Deborah Wiles, book 3 of the Aurora County series (2007)
  6. Cover of Countdown by Deborah Wiles, book 1 of the Sixties Trilogy (2010)
  7. Cover of Revolution by Deborah Wiles, book 2 of the Sixties Trilogy (2014)
  8. Cover of Anthem by Deborah Wiles, book 3 of the Sixties Trilogy (2019)
  9. Cover of Kent State by Deborah Wiles (2020)
  10. Cover of Night Walk to the Sea by Deborah Wiles (2020)
  11. Cover of Bobby: A Story of Robert F. Kennedy by Deborah Wiles (2022)
  1. 1
    Freedom Summer2001 · 32 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200132
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  2. 2
    Love, Ruby LavenderAurora County #12001 · 228 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001228
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  3. 3
    One Wide Sky2003 · confirmed 1/4
    2003–
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  4. 4
    Hang the Moon2004 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004128
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  5. 5
    Each Little Bird that SingsAurora County #22005 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005260
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  6. 6
    The Aurora County All-StarsAurora County #32007 · 242 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007242
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  7. 7
    CountdownSixties Trilogy #12010 · 377 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010377
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  8. 8
    RevolutionSixties Trilogy #22014 · 495 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014495
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  9. 9
    A Long Line of Cakes2018 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018272
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  10. 10
    AnthemSixties Trilogy #32019 · 544 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019544
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  11. 11
    Kent State2020 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020144
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  12. 12
    Night Walk to the Sea2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
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  13. 13
    We Are All Under One Wide Sky2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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  14. 14
    Bobby: A Story of Robert F. Kennedy2022 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    202248
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Deborah Wiles books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Aurora County in order

3 books
  1. 1. Love, Ruby Lavender
  2. 2. Each Little Bird that Sings
  3. 3. The Aurora County All-Stars

Sixties Trilogy in order

3 books
  1. 1. Countdown
  2. 2. Revolution
  3. 3. Anthem

Standalone books

8 books

8 Deborah Wiles titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Deborah Wiles books in order?

You only need to read Deborah Wiles books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Deborah Wiles

Start with Freedom Summer (2001), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Deborah Wiles book?

Bobby: A Story of Robert F. Kennedy (2022) is the newest Deborah Wiles book released so far.

Is there a new Deborah Wiles book coming?

No next Deborah Wiles book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Deborah Wiles has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Deborah Wiles. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Deborah Wiles at a glance

Paused
No new Deborah Wiles title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Deborah Wiles books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,770 pages across the 11 of 14 books with a recorded length, a median of 242 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Deborah Wiles books, 6 of 14, were published in the 2000s.

What the Deborah Wiles books are about

12 of the 14 Deborah Wiles books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 8 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.