Lila Perl, the daughter of Russian immigrants fleeing anti-Semitism, published over sixty volumes of fiction and nonfiction for young readers during her long and distinguished career. In addition to the beloved *Fat Glenda* series, Perl twice received American Library Association Notable awards for nonfiction and was a recipient of the Sydney Taylor Award for *Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story*. She died in 2013 at the age of ninety-two. *Isabel's War* and its completed sequel, *Lilli's Quest*, were her final works.