L.B. Tillit, the pen name for Leslie Parker Borhaug, is the award-winning author of a Silver 2012 Independent Book Publisher Award for her Hi-Lo novel, Unchained (2012). She grew up as a missionary-kid in Switzerland, where she struggled with reading and spelling in two different languages. She taught sixteen years and has received her Master's in Reading and Literacy. Reading fluency remains her passion and continues to drive her to write high-interest level, low-reading level books.