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Debbie S. Miller

Debbie S. Miller is the author of many award-winning nature books for children, illustrated by wildlife artists Jon and Daniel Van Zyle. Her books, such as A Caribou Journey, Flight of the Golden Plover, River of Life, and Big Alaska: Journey Across America’s Most Amazing State, have been recognized as Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children by the National Science Teachers Association. Her book Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights received the 2003 John Burroughs Nature book for Young Readers Award. Debbie traveled across the frozen Arctic Ocean to study polar bear behavior she described in A Polar Bear Journey. She and her husband lived and taught school in Arctic Village, and they have explored the Arctic National Wildlife extensively. She has also written about the first life-saving sled dog race to Nome in The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail.