Valerie Sherrard

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2002
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Keystone

Accomplice (Feb-2011)
Testify (Aug-2011)

A Shelby Belgarden Mystery

Out of the Ashes (Mar-2002)
Chasing Shadows (Feb-2004)
Hiding in Plain Sight (Jun-2005)
Eyes of a Stalker (Sep-2006)
Searching for Yesterday (Jul-2008)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Out of the Ashes

    A Shelby Belgarden Mystery

    Short-listed for the 2003 Red Maple Award and Arthur Ellis Award for best Juvenile Book, commended for the 2003 Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Selection Shelby Belgarden isn't exactly thrilled when people start thinking Greg is her boyfri...

  • In Too Deep

    When Shelby Belgarden’s peaceful hometown of Little River is shaken by a series of robberies, suspicion falls on Amber Chapman, a new girl in town who has alienated others with her standoffish attitude. Shelby’s own dislike of the newcomer is ...

  • Kate

    2005 White Pine Award -- Shortlisted2004 IODE Violet Downey National Book Award -- Shortlisted2004 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice Selection There’s one other thing I should mention right off, which is that I’m fourteen years old...

  • Chasing Shadows

    A Shelby Belgarden Mystery

    At last, Shelby Belgarden has put her crime-solving behind her and has returned to the life of an ordinary teenager. Now 16, she has taken her first job: working at a new local restaurant called The Steak Place. But when one of her co-workers -- a ...

  • Sam's Light

    Short-listed for the 2005 Snow Willow Award and for the 2006 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award Cole Fennety doesn't know it, but he is about to have the strangest summer of his life. His little sister, Jessie, is driving him crazy, his mother is t...

  • Hiding in Plain Sight

    A Shelby Belgarden Mystery

    With school over, Greg visiting relatives, and Betts on vacation with her family, it’s looking like it will be a quiet summer for Shelby Belgarden. Until, that is, she finds out that Betts and her family have returned home suddenly, and Betts’s m...

  • Sarah's Legacy

    Commended for the 2007 Canadian Children's Book Centre, short-listed for the 2008 Red Maple Award "You know how it is when you get a feeling that something big is going to happen? Well, it wasn't like that for me. In fact, that Thursday started out l...

  • Eyes of a Stalker

    A Shelby Belgarden Mystery

    An unexpected delivery from the florist points to a secret admirer for Shelby Belgarden, but when an ominous phone call and a disturbing email follow, the teenaged sleuth and her family realize that the dangerous obsession of a stalker lies behind th...

  • Speechless

    Commended for the 2008 Best Books for Kids and Teens, short-listed for the 2008 Snow Willow Award and Ann Connor Brimer Award "No one pays much attention to you if you don’t have much to say, so there was no way I could have predicted what would ...



  • Three Million Acres of Flame

    Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens For Skye Haverill and her family, it begins as an ordinary day. But in the annals of Canadian history, October 7, 1825, is the date of one of our greatest national disasters. The Haverill fami...

  • Searching for Yesterday

    A Shelby Belgarden Mystery

    Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens Annie Berkley, a schoolmate of Shelby’s who has appeared in previous books, lives in a foster home and has become depressed. Shelby is concerned and eventually wins over Annie’s trust in or...

  • There's a Cow Under My Bed!

    Oscar Ollie Brown is on the hunt! Ants and frogs and cows are making his life miserable and he's determined to put them in their place. There's just one problem: they're invisible. And poor Oscar! His life is plagued with creatures he can't see. A...

  • Watcher

    "I knew one thing -- I wasn't going to be rotting in that place for the rest of my life. I was getting out of there. That place turned people into the living dead. In that neighbourhood, it was hard to hear anything that didn't carry the sound of def...

  • There's a Goldfish in My Shoe!

    Oscar Ollie Brown is vexed and perplexed. Whether he's holding his tongue, dropping everything or following some other instruction his mother gives him, Oscar finds that doing what he's told never seems to work out quite the way he expects. From resc...

  • Tumbleweed Skies

    The moment Ellie and her father pull up in front of Grandmother Acklebee's farm in Weybolt, Saskatchewan, Ellie knows she isn't wanted. But Ellie's father has just taken a job as a traveling salesman, and he has no other choice. The road is no pl...

  • Accomplice

    Keystone

    Short-listed for the 2012 SYRCA Snow Willow Award Lexie Malton is an average Vancouver teen with fairly typical issues. Her stepmother is far from her favourite person, she has a sister with special needs, and life outside the home is the usual mix ...

  • The Glory Wind

    A young boy must come to terms with the moral prejudices of his small town in rural 1950s Ontario when he befriends the daughter of a young widow who moves in next door. Gracie is unlike anyone Luke has ever met - fun, charming, imaginative and full ...

  • Testify

    Keystone

    Short-listed for the Forest of Reading Red Maple Award, 2012

    Before you judge me, there are two things you should know about why I did it.

    Shana Tremain is a good kid. She knows right from wrong and she’s never been in any ...

  • Miss Wondergem's Dreadfully Dreadful Pie

    Miss Wondergem's Bakery, coming quite soon! In fact, it will open tomorrow at noon!There's a brand new bakery in town, and no one could be happier about it than Verna, Myrna and Bradley McGrew. As much as they love their mother, the McGrew children d...



  • Counting Back from Nine

    "There are rules for what I've done. Specific punishments for crimes against friendship." Laren Olivier knows the rules, but her attraction to a friend's ex-boyfriend is strong. She tells herself that if she and Scott can keep their new romance a se...

  • Driftwood

    Adam's summer is off to a disappointing start. His so-called "best friend" has bailed on him, choosing to stay behind to care for a sick dog, instead of joining Adam and his family at the seaside campground as planned. Adam is furious wit...

  • Rain Shadow

    Bethany knows that she is special. She doesn't learn things as easily as her classmates do and that sometimes makes them mean to her. They call her names - including the really "bad" name. Even her mom and her sister Mira say unkind things at times....

  • Down Here

    After all, it's all in how you look at things!

    Jamie doesn't have the same talents as other members of their family. They can draw and tell scary stories. But Jamie can build things and create new worlds - mazes, rocket ships, roller coas...

  • Random Acts

    A laugh-out-loud middle-grade novel featuring three friends whose acts of kindness go terribly awry. In the haze of a food-induced stupor, Zoey Dalton and her best friends Bean and Jenna make a pledge to begin performing random acts of kindness--a...

  • Cooper Clark and the Dragon Lady

    Written as a simple chapter book for younger readers, this novel focuses on the tribulations of Cooper Clark, who needs a baby sitter after school every day until his parents come home from work. All is fine as long as that babysitter is Cooper's...

  • The Rise and Fall of Derek Cowell

    Derek didn’t mean to become popular. His accidental photo bomb―the one that made him internet-famous―took him from invisibility to middle-school fame overnight. And you know what? He’s not sure if he likes it. But his best friend Sam does, an...

  • Birdspell

    Corbin’s bipolar mother is often unemployed, and their apartment has no furniture, and sometimes no food. When his classmate offers Corbin the bird she can no longer keep, he’s all-in. When things begin to spiral out of control and Corbin...

  • A Bend in the Breeze

    When Pascale Chardon finds herself on a lifeboat drifting toward an uncharted island with no memory of how she got there, all she wants is to get back to her family. The islanders, however, have a different objective. For many decades, the islanders ...

  • Standing on Neptune

    Am I pregnant? This question shatters the peace of seventeen-year-old Brooke Palinder’s life one Monday morning when she realizes her period is late. Although shaken, she is determined to hide her feelings and go about her daily routine as thou...



  • An Unbalanced Force

    To catch a liar, he must become a liar. Ethan Granger has no idea what his father does for work, just that it’s lucrative enough to make his family rich, and it often requires him to go out of town. But when Ethan catches his dad in a lie, it r...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Valerie Sherrard has published 30 books.

Valerie Sherrard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, An Unbalanced Force, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Valerie Sherrard, Out of the Ashes, was published in March 2002.

Yes. Valerie Sherrard has 2 series.
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