by Barb Langridge | Aug 9, 2007 | Historical Fiction
Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class. Even when the other kids tease...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 3, 2007 | Historical Fiction
Dickens’ timeless novel transports young readers to a colorful Victorian England filled with mistreated orphans, grim workhouses, and gangs of thieving children. The hero finds himself in dire circumstances after he dares to beg for more food in the orphanage....
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2007 | Humor
Cooked carrot? Too many brothers and sisters? Big ears? P.J. Funnybunny has had it with being a bunny. It’s just too hard and there are too many problems with bunnyness. One day he packs up and heads out to leave the world of bunny-being and turn to the world of...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 27, 2007 | Fantasy
“When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder — much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 30, 2006 | Action / Adventure
“We said there was no home like a raft. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery…but you feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.” Sail down the Mississippi with Huck Finn and the runaway slave, Jim. Twain’s beloved tale, with its folksy language,...
