The author of two award-winning picture books for young readers and three well-received young adult novels, Jerrie Oughton has written about topics from Native American myths and legends to World War II to contemporary teen problems. Her picture books How the Stars Fell into the Sky and The Magic Weaver of Rugs detail Navajo legends: the creation of the stars and how the Navajo people received their weaving tradition. In Music from a Place Called Half Moon, a novel for older readers, Oughton takes a look at the fragile racial divisions existing in a small North Carolina town in the 1950s, and in 1997's The War in Georgia she explores the coming-of-age of a young girl during World War II. With Perfect Family, the author returns to the timeline of the 1950s to examine the difficulties of unwanted pregnancy in an age before choice. The geography and eras...