Author: Mary  K Pershall
Born: 14 March 1951
Bio: Mary K. Pershall was born and grew up in Iowa, in the mid-west of the United States. She lived there until 1974, when aged 23, she emigrated to Melbourne, Australia as part of an airlift of teachers. From 1977 to 1987, she worked as an editor on children's magazines Comet, Pursuit and Challenge. is notable for her Two Weeks in Grade Six trilogy, which also includes the titles A Term in Year Seven and Escape from Year Eight. Her best known book is You Take the High Road, published in 1988, a novel for children set in contemporary Australia.[1] It is listed in WorldCat as being held in 490 libraries.[2] It has been translated into Dutch as Beelden van Nickie.[3] Pershall is also responsible for the Ruby Clair series, which depicts a 12-year-old girl's struggle to juggle a normal life with the ghosts she can see, and has co-authored a number of novels with her daughters.
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