Shelley Pearsall

A former teacher and museum historian, Shelley Pearsall is now a full-time writer. Her first novel, Trouble Don’t Last, won the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction. She has six novels for tweens and teens, published by Random House and Hachette Books and visits schools to talk about books and writing.

​ALL OF THE ABOVE is a nationally-recognized novel for grades 4 thru 8 which has been used by schools across the country because of its STEM connections. Several middle schools have read the entire book together in a single day, which you can read more about at her site One Book, One Day.  She lives in Akron, Ohio.

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