Shelley Pearsall

Shelley Pearsall is a professional children's author and educator born in Ohio, known for her seven acclaimed books for middle grade and teen readers. Her first novel, Trouble Don't Last, won the 2003 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and she has been a children's writer-in-residence at the James Thurber House since 2005. She previously worked as a public-school teacher and museum historian before becoming a full-time author.