Pam Webber, Author of the Coming-of-Age Novel, "The Wiregrass"

There's a portion of the deep south known as the Wiregrass, for the particularly nasty kind of grass that grows there.  That's where author Pam Webber and her cousins spent their summers growing up.  And that's where the fictional cousins of The Wiregrass spent their summers.  The summer she writes of is the one where they are starting to realize their childhood is coming to an end and the way things have always been, isn't the way they're going to be anymore. One of the reasons she wrote this book is to bring more awareness to the problem of child abuse. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says that in one year alone, more than a million kids were abused or at risk for being abused.  We need to stop that.