A spooky hotel, two ghosts (friend and enemy), real boyfriend, real romance, a forgiven mother. Not bad for Winter Vacation.
Shirley Reva Vernick's first novel, The Blood Lie, won the Simon Wiesenthal Once Upon
a World Children''s Book Award; was the silver medalist for the Sydney Taylor Book
Award; and was listed by the ALA for the 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults. Her
second novel, Remember Dippy, came out in Spring 2013. It received the 2014 Dolly Gray
Children's Literature Award. She lives in Amherst, Massachussetts.