Alabama Booksmith

Aileen Kilgore Henderson lives in Brookwood and is a former school teacher. She served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II as an airplane mechanic and a photo lab technician. Mrs. Henderson was named Children's Author of the Year by the Alabama Library Association, won the Milkweed Prize for Children's Literature and was selected for the New York Public Library's list of 1998 Books for the Teen Age.

Aileen Kilgore Henderson's titles include the following:

Hard Times for Jake Smith
Tenderfoot Teacher
The Summer of the Bonepile Monster
The Monkey Thief
Treasure of Panther Peak
Stateside Soldier