ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Author, blogger, and writing teacher, Darcy Pattison (www.darcypattison.com) has hiked, canoed and explored the Ozark Mountains, and for years has wanted to set a story there. Recent news reports said that 100 years ago, armadillos were seldom seen in Texas, but in recent years, had pushed as far north as the Ozarks, and even beyond. She began to imagine the Ozarks from an armadillo’s point of view and that sparked this story. In addition to novels, Pattison also writes nature picture books: Wisdom, the Midway Albatross (Mims House), which received Starred Review in Publisher’s Weekly; Desert Baths (Sylvan Dell), an NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book 2013; and Abayomi, the Brazilian Puma: The True Story of an Orphaned Cub. Darcy Pattison is the 2007 recipient of Arkansas Governor’s Arts Awards for her work in Children’s Literature.

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Darcy Pattison

Mims House

1309 S. Broadway

Little Rock, AR 7216

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Vagabonds/ Darcy Pattison

Hardcover ISBN:  978-1-62944-014-9

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-62944-015-6

Ebook ISBN:  978-1-62944-016-3

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013920542

Lexile: 710L