Deborah Wiles (born May 5, 1953, Mobile, Alabama, United States) is a children's book author.

Deborah Wiles was born in Mobile, Alabama, the daughter of Marie Kilgore and Thomas Edwards, who was an air force pilot.

The book is based on her memories of her growing up summers in Mississippi and the 1964 passage of the Civil Rights Act.

It was a Children's Book of the Month Club selection and has accompanying music written by Jim Pearce.

Each Little Bird That Sings (Harcourt Brace) published in 2005, is about Comfort Snowberger who lives in Snapfinger Mississippi.

When her Great-great-Aunt Florentine dies, straight after her Uncle Edisto, all Comfort wants to do is curl up in her closet and hide with her big dog, Dismay, even if it is the most important funeral of her life so far.

The Aurora County All-Stars (Harcourt) completes the trilogy of Mississippi novels that includes Each Little Bird That Sings and Love, Ruby Lavender.

A fourth Aurora County book, a companion to the first three, will be published in September 2018, titled A Long Line of Cakes.

They contain scrapbooks of archival primary-source material as part of the narrative—photographs, song lyrics, advertisements, biographies, quotes, newspaper articles and more.

It takes place in October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis and is a story about eleven-year-old Franny Chapman and her great desire to be seen, to belong, and to matter in a world that includes her authoritative mother, her Air Force pilot father, the interesting new boy across the street, a best friend who is turning into an enemy, a perfect little brother who wants to be an astronaut, an amazing older sister with secrets, an uncle who is still living through the trenches in World War I, and the real horror of the Cuban Missile Crisis, for thirteen days in October 1962, when the world came as close as it has ever come to nuclear annihilation.

It tells the sixties story of the civil rights movement through the eyes of 12-year-old Sunny Fairchild, who lives in Greenwood, Mississippi during Freedom Summer in 1964.

Jo Ellen Chapman, a character from book one of the sixties trilogy, Countdown, appears in Revolution as a Freedom Worker for SNCC in Greenwood.