Awards

The Healing Spell paperback

The Healing Spell has been chosen as a Bank Street College Best Book of 2011

2010 Wht on Blck Winner

Won the Whitney Award for Best Youth Novel of 2010!

crystal Kite

A Crystal Kite Finalist

A New Mexico Book Award Finalist

“An incantational tale of Cajun magic and gators on the bayou and of the love and silence between mother and daughter.” ~ RICHARD PECK, Newbery Medalist

“The Healing Spell is an atmospheric, affecting story of hope and devotion, as elegant and mysterious as bayou country itself.” ~ CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH, acclaimed author of Tantalize and Eternal

About Me

Kimberley Griffiths Little was born in San Francisco, but now lives in New Mexico with her husband and three sons on the banks of the Rio Grande. She's the award-winning author of 10 books for Middle-Grade and Young Adult readers.

She once stayed in the haunted tower room at Borthwick Castle in Scotland; held baby gators in the swamps of Louisiana, sailed the Seine in Paris; ridden a camel in Petra; shopped the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul; and spent the night in an old Communist hotel in Bulgaria.

Kimberley adores anything old and musty with a secret story to tell and makes way too many cookies while writing.

Kimberley's Awards include: Southwest Book Award, Whitney Award for Best Youth Novel, Bank Street College Best Books of 2011, 2014, & 2015, a Crystal Kite Finalist, and Arizona/New Mexico Book Award Winner. ALA BOOKLIST named the first book in her FORBIDDEN trilogy a "Top 10 Historical Novel of 2015, Top 10 Romance of 2015, and Top 10 Religion/Spiritual novel of 2015.
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