by Barb Langridge | Mar 6, 2009 | Fantasy
Pod, Homily, and Arrietty escape from the Platters’ attic and set off to an old rectory to begin life anew. —from the publisher 304 pages 978-0152047313 Ages 8-11 Keywords: fantasy, action/adventure, family life, classic, 8 year...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 5, 2009 | Fantasy
“Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll’s putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 28, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Winner of the 1994 Coretta Scott King Author Award Terminal cancer. Fourteen-year-old Emily and her mother, Diane, have gotten the bad news that Ola, Diane’s mother and Emily’s grandmother has a diagnosis of terminal cancer and she doesn’t want to...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 15, 2009 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
The stirring prequel to the award-winning, bestselling BONE series! When a terrifying dragon attacks the small towns of the Northern Valley, a young Princess Rose (known later as Gran’ma Ben) must defeat it. The beast is actually the ancient evil, the Lord of...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 10, 2008 | Mystery
She lived on a farm with her pet dog . it was close to thanksgiving they were going to cook the turkey early this year. OH NO where is the turkey!!! “We can not have thanksgiving without a turkey” said nancy drew. Her friends and her searched for the turkey. No...
