Books with author Jeff Shelly

Start your engines! This award-winning book is the perfect choice for kids who want to learn how to draw all their favorite vehicles! Step-by-step, easy-to-follow illustrations guide kids through drawing 28 different cars and trucks of all shapes and sizes-starting with basic shapes and ending with lifelike finished drawings. Meanwhile, fun facts about the featured vehicles add extra entertainment value

This interactive book introduces young children to the intriguing world of dinosaurs. Vibrantly illustrated background, stickers, and punch-outs come together to provide hours of imaginative fun. The background scenery, a stand-up panorama of a prehistoric land, doubles as a stickering page and a vivid background for punch-out playtime. The sturdy punch-outs are perfectly sized for little hands, and include multiple different dinosaurs, prehistoric plants and trees. Reusable stickers include flying dinosaurs, land-roaming dinosaurs, rocks, trees, dinosaur footprints, and more. All together, Sticker, Punch-out & Play!: Dinosaurs makes for interactive play and limitless fun.

With How to Draw Dinosaurs, young artists learn to bring these incredible creatures to life, guided by realistic illustrations and step-by-step instructions for 20 different dinosaur species. Fascinating facts throughout provide inspiration and learning opportunities. The book opens with a brief description of how to get started, using basic drawing tools. Each drawing lesson begins with a basic shape and progresses, step by step, to a finished piece of artwork, making it easy to follow along. Children will be enthralled by the life-like depiction of each dinosaur accompanied by incredible facts about its weight, size, diet, and appearance. Kids will enjoy the 32 pages of drawing instruction for a variety of dinosaurs, including:Tyrannosaurus rexStegosaurusTriceratopsVelociraptorPteranodonBrachiosaurusIguanadonWith a mix of art instruction and fun trivia, How to Draw Dinosaurs is the perfect way for children to discover more about their favorite dinosaurs, in addition to developing their artistic talents.

A winter storm brings more than just snow to Rainy’s doorstep. It also brings Mack Mercy, her former boss at Capitol Cases, and a whole heap of trouble.Coming home from a conference, Mack’s car skids off an icy road during the storm. He manages to make his way to Rainy’s, where he is soon introduced to the townsfolk in Latney. But as charming as the town appears to be, Mack soon discovers all is not as it seems in the tiny town Rainy relocated to…especially when his car disappears from the side of the road. And especially when Sheriff Lewis accuses him of a crime he didn’t commit.With Mack stranded in Latney and holed up in her house, Rainy must put her own pressing personal issues on the backburner to help her former boss. Even if he doesn’t want it.Because she knows what charges he’s up against and who’s leveling them. And she knows Sheriff Lewis will do whatever it takes to make those charges stick…especially if it means he can take down Rainy, too.

Small towns like big stories.And Rainy Day is right in the middle of one. Rainy is settling into her new life in the small town of Latney, but when a young woman goes missing, she finds herself thrown in the spotlight again. Because the townspeople turn to her for help. Rainy reluctantly lets herself be drawn into searching for the woman. Soon enough, she is surrounded by people who are sneaking around and struggling with telling her the truth. As new suspects come to light, Rainy worries that the woman might never be found and that an innocent person will stand accused. Can she find the missing woman before it’s too late?

The unexpected death of a friend in the surfing community brings an old classmate into Noah’s life. A classmate looking for answers.When Mitchell Henderson, the owner of The Blue Wave motel and an icon in the local surfing community, dies in a car crash, Anne Sullivan asks Noah to do a little digging. Not because she suspects any wrongdoing, but because she needs closure, and because she seriously doubts he was capable of reckless driving.What starts as a favor to an old high school friend quickly becomes something more, especially when Anne finds herself on the wrong side of mysterious threats and outright harassment.Noah soon discovers that there are more pieces to the puzzle than he realized, including a betrayed widow, a mountain of debt, and some shady characters who were pressing hard on Mitchell Henderson.Noah needs to move fast. Not just to give Anne the answers she’s looking for, but quite possibly to save her life, too.

Start your engines! This award-winning book is the perfect choice for kids who want to learn how to draw all their favorite vehicles! Step-by-step, easy-to-follow illustrations guide kids through drawing 28 different cars and trucks of all shapes and sizes-starting with basic shapes and ending with lifelike finished drawings. Meanwhile, fun facts about the featured vehicles add extra entertainment value.

When Daisy's daughter, Emily, takes a job at a local restaurant she ends up serving more than she bargained for.Moose River’s beloved Officer Ted falls ill after eating some tasty tacos, and all signs point to foul play. Emily worries that her job is on the line, but Daisy quickly realizes there are far bigger concerns, especially when potential suspects start coming out of the woodwork. Daisy soon realizes she needs to act fast. Not only is Emily’s job on the line, but the safety of the residents of Moose River might be, too.

Brady Mickelson knows how to play the game. Not just basketball, but the game of life. As the new kid at school, all Brady wants to do is fit in, make friends, secure a starting spot on the basketball team, and maybe, if he's lucky, shed his v-card along the way. With his skills on the court, making varsity is a lock. But the other stuff? Not so much. The friends come fast and furious once he makes the team but the one friend he really wants is Amy Mitchell, and he sure wouldn't mind losing his virginity to her, either. He thinks he might get his chance at the kick-off party for basketball season...until she bails on him and disappears. The night goes further off the rails when Brady mistakenly walks into a room and finds Amy with three of his teammates.Brady doesn't want to get involved in the messy aftermath of that night. But Amy becomes a shell of her former self, and everyone has a different story about what happened in that room. Brady has a feeling he knows, but no one, not even Amy, wants to do anything about it. When new rumors surface—rumors that implicate Brady—he's forced to take action.Even if it means losing friends, and even if it means kissing his hopes of college ball goodbye.Because everything Brady wants—and the one thing he needs—is in jeopardy. And he might not be able to play the game after all.