Pearsall, Shelly. (2006). All of the above. New York, NY: Little Brown and Company. Four inner city students are going through the journey of building the world’s largest tetrahedron. The engaging and suspenseful story intertwines personal stories of the teachers, students, and the community. This book, which is inspired by actual events, is filled with unexpected humor and distressing characters. All of the Above makes math alive, while at the same time teaches friendship and diversity in character. This is a realistic fiction book because it presents a story which is “true-to-life” and it “makes meaning out of a number of related events which make the teenagers to see themselves in new ways” (p. 126). This book has won multiple awards:
