Things Seen From Above, Shelley Pearsall
Things Seen From Above, Shelley Pearsall
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Things Seen From Above

Author: Shelley Pearsall

Narrator: Christopher Gebauer, Eevin Hartsough

Unabridged: 5 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/04/2020

Synopsis

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, which has become a social-scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a "buddy bench monitor" for the fourth graders' recess. Joey Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the playground alone, dragging his foot through the dirt. But over time, April realizes that Joey isn't just making random circles. When you look at his designs from above, a story emerges... Joey's "bird's eye" drawings reveal what he observes and thinks about every day. Told in alternating viewpoints--April's in text and Joey's mostly in art--the story gives the "whole picture" of what happens as these two outsiders find their rightful places.

About Shelley Pearsall

A former teacher and museum historian, Shelley Pearsall is now a full-time author. Her first novel, Trouble Don’t Last, won the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Her other books include Jump into the Sky, Crooked River, All of the Above, and All Shook Up.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Reem on August 04, 2020

This book is about April, who is in sixth grade, and is struggling to make friends. After such an incident, she volunteers for Buddy Bench, where she starts observing Joey, who is an unusual and unique kid, a rare bird. Along the way she meets Veena, and they start discovering more about Joey Byrd.......more

Goodreads review by Yvette on October 05, 2020

3 or 3.5 stars. I was excited to read Things Seen from Above, and it was good and I liked the concept... but it didn't particularly wow me. It's about Joey Byrd, a fourth grade boy who is an outsider, who seemingly mindlessly walks around the playground, and buddy bench monitor April, who wonders if......more

Goodreads review by WKPL Children's/YA Books on December 01, 2020

Miss Lori quickly read and thoroughly enjoyed this book by Ohioan Shelley Pearsall. The theme is that we should all take the opportunity to change our perspective on situations/people we don't understand. By doing this, we may be rewarded with a new understanding of things and of ourselves in the pr......more

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