 Wiles published a picture book, "Freedom Summer" (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum), in 2001.The book is based on her memories of her growing up summers in Mississippi and the 1964 passage of the Civil Rights Act.Two boys, best friends, want to swim at the town pool together the day it opens to "everybody under the sun, no matter what color," but find out that they can't, as the pool has been filled in "with hot, spongy tar."