Books with author Shirley A Williams

There is no feeling quite so refreshing as capturing a fresh warm sweet glance into the life of a little girl enjoying growing a blackberry garden with the support of her best animal friends. When a pesky aphids family decides to move into Ellie’s blackberry garden and eat up her blackberry plants, Ellie and her friends do everything they can think of to get rid of the voracious aphids. Until a tiny bold, cheerful ladybug by the name of Lacie stops by and bestows her aid in helping discard the garden of aphids. A warm fun twist, to end the story with a little science knowledge about aphids and ladybugs, Ellie is happy to say she has a healthy blackberry garden—enough to make her famous blackberry pie! The illustrations created by Chris Hammond provides beautiful eye-catching moments that bring Ellie’s blackberry garden and friends alive while inspiring children to understand the authenticity of nature. Adding this book to your shopping cart begins the opportunity for your child to become friends with Ellie and all of her helpful animals’ friends. This story provides early learners with reading, math, and science skills.

In 1829 in Kentucky, a pregnant black woman helped lead an uprising of a group of slaves headed to the market for sale. She was sentenced to death, but her hanging was delayed until after the birth of her baby. In North Carolina in 1830, a white woman living on an isolated farm was reported to have given sanctuary to runaway slaves. In this classic novel of courage and redemption, acclaimed author Sherley Anne Williams asks the question: "What if these two women had met?" These two strong women, one black, one white, form a forbidden and ambivalent alliance as a bold scheme is hatched to win freedom. Trust is slowly extended and cautiously accepted as the women unite and discover greater strength together than alone. Bound by fate but divided by prejudice, they explore and defy racial barriers in a moving story of courage, freedom, friendship, and love.

Hector Oltroy is weird. There. Now you know as much about him as most of the kids in his class. The only person he feels remotely similar to is his pop, because he’s even weirder. But even Hector is surprised to find a sword in Pop’s backyard, a sword that links Pop to a mysterious group — a cult that fuses children with animals.This discovery unearths a laborynth of coverups and Hector tugs at the secret until it unravels — and gets himself caught in the cult in the process. Now he’s captured in a place where kids are fused with animals: they have feathers instead of hair, or eight legs instead of two, or arms made of snakes. There are those who can see spirits, and tell the future. Wondrous, mysterious, deadly and dark, but none of them can escape this twisted world? There must be a way. Hector has to overthrow the wicked cult leader. This action-packed adventure by Best-Selling Amazon author, Shelley Williams, is a story sparkling with magical characters and imaginative flair. Good luck putting this book down.