Shelley Pearsall

• Dec-2003
• / General Fiction
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Eleven-year-old Samuel was born as Master Hackler’s slave, and working the Kentucky farm is the only life he’s ever known -- until one dark night in 1859, that is. With no warning, cranky old Harrison, a fellow slave, pulls Samuel from his b...

• Aug-2005
• / Historical
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The year is 1812. A white trapper is murdered. And a young Chippewa Indian stands accused. Captured and shackled in leg irons and chains, Indian John awaits his trial in a settler's loft. All the while, thirteen-year-old Rebecca Carver sleeps and...

• Jan-2008
• / General Fiction
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Based on a true story, All of the Above is the delightful and suspenseful story of four inner city students and their quest to build the world's largest tetrahedron. Weaving together the different personal stories of the kids, their teacher, and the ...

• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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WHEN 13-YEAR-OLD JOSH finds out he has to stay with his dad in Chicago for a few months, he’s not too thrilled. But when he arrives at the airport, he’s simply devastated. His father -- who used to be a scatterbrained, but pretty normal, shoe sal...

• Aug-2012
• / General Fiction
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Levi Battle's been left behind all his life. His mother could sing like a bird and she flew away like one, too. His father left him with his grandmother so he could work as a traveling salesman -- until Levi's grandmother left this world entirely. No...

• Sep-2015
• / Historical
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One kid. One crime. One chance to make things right. It was a bitterly cold day when Arthur T. Owens grabbed a brick and hurled it at the trash picker. Arthur had his reasons, and the brick hit the Junk Man in the arm, not the head. But none of th...

• Feb-2020
• / General Fiction
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A shift in perspective can change everything. This brilliant new novel from the author of The Seventh Most Important Thing celebrates kids who see the world a little differently. April is looking for an escape from the sixth-grade lunch hour, w...