Shirley Reva Vernick's first novel, The Blood Lie, won the Simon Wiesenthal Once Upona World Children''s Book Award; was the silver medalist for the Sydney Taylor BookAward; and was listed by the ALA for the 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults. Hersecond novel, Remember Dippy, came out in Spring 2013. It received the 2014 Dolly GrayChildren's Literature Award. She lives in Amherst, Massachussetts.