by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2021 | Historical Fiction
A gut-wrenching, startling window into communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray. Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2021 | Fantasy
X-Men meets Ocean’s Eleven in the new middle-grade series from the New York Times bestselling author, Lisa McMann (The Unwanteds). Fifteen years ago, eight supernatural criminals fled Estero City to make a new life in an isolated tropical hideout. Over time,...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2021 | Historical Fiction
New historical fiction from a Newbery Honor–winning author about how middle schooler Ariel Goldberg’s life changes when her big sister elopes following the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, and she’s forced to grapple with both her family’s prejudice...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2021 | Non-Fiction
From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2021 | Fiction
This full-color chapter book series features the most darling dancers you will ever meet! For fans of the Magic Bunny, Isadora Moon, and Rainbow Magic series. Millie and the Ballet Bunnies are going to see a live performance of Millie’s favorite ballet. When...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2021 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
A brand-new Baby-sitters Club graphic novel adapted by Eisner-nominated artist Chan Chau! Kristy’s mom got remarried and their family moved to the ritzy neighborhood across town. The other members of The Baby-sitters Club think it’s a good opportunity to...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2021 | Mystery
It’s two years later . . . Friday steps out of prison, a shell of her former self. She’s still wearing the same brown cardigan, but she swears she’s never solving mysteries again! Who is Friday kidding? She can’t suppress her brilliant deductive mind and is soon drawn...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2021 | Picture Book
In this fourth book in the series from New York Times bestselling author Michael Ian Black and celebrated illustrator Debbie Ridpath Ohi, a flamingo and a very sorry potato learn how to mend hurt feelings. Flamingo is upset. Very upset. Potato is sorry. Very sorry. In...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2021 | Fantasy
In this middle grade solarpunk novel set in an alternate Egyptian universe, twelve-year-old Ash must compete to become the Shadow–and protector–of the prince. FIVE DEADLY TESTS, ONLY ONE SHADOW PRINCE Growing up as an orphan in a remote village in the...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2021 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Winner of the 2023 Michael L. Printz Award Sociologist par excellence Brene Brown has a new book out called THE ATLAS OF THE HEART. In that book she talks about emotions and how you really can’t understand what someone else is feeling until you know their story...
