Shirley Reva Vernick
Shirley Reva Vernick is an award-winning author and journalist. Her works include The Sky We Shared, Remember Dippy, The Blood Lie, The Black Butterfly, and Ripped Away. Her interviews and feature articles have appeared in numerous magazines, national newspapers, and university publications. Shirley graduated from Cornell University and is an alumna of the Radcliffe Writing Seminars. She lives in western Massachusetts.
Books
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The Sky We Shared
By Shirley Reva VernickView DetailsPaperback available March 31, 2026
In this thoughtful and deftly woven WWII novel, an American and a Japanese teen with lives on opposite ends of the world discover that hate for an "enemy" leaves a heavy heart.
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The Black Butterfly
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The Black Butterfly
By Shirley Reva VernickView DetailsPaperback available June 9, 2026
Penny's reluctant stay at the Black Butterfly is interrupted by two ghosts (one friendly, one not), and a potential first love in this spooky-sweet story set on the mysterious coast of Maine.
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Remember Dippy
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Remember Dippy
By Shirley Reva VernickView DetailsPaperback available April 7, 2026
Between helpings of mouthwatering shortcake, mysterious ferret disappearances, and a romance that misfires, thirteen-year-old Johnny and his fifteen year old cousin Remember forge a lifelong friendship in a summer they will never forget.
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The Blood Lie
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The Blood Lie
By Shirley Reva VernickView DetailsYears before WWII begins, latent hostility against the Jews erupts in a blood lie when Daisy, a young Gentile girl from Massena, New York, disappears in the woods.
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