by Barb Langridge | Jul 24, 2021 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
From National Book Award–winning author Kathryn Erskine comes a heartfelt, poignant novel that tackles grief, change, and the struggle to let your voice be heard. Perfect for fans of Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Erin Entrada Kelly, and Ali Benjamin. Shy, eleven-year-old Lily...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 23, 2021 | Non-Fiction
The large variety of jobs that await the art lover are showcased in this peek into the workdays of 25 workers whose jobs involve art. Learn what it takes to be an architect or an art historian, how a technical illustrator or a game designer spends their day, and...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 22, 2021 | Action / Adventure
Irish Twins Myles and Beckett, Artemis Fowl’s younger brothers, return in their third and most bizarre adventure yet. For almost two years, Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye, the Duke of Scilly, has been plotting revenge against the Fowl Twins, who humiliated him in Book...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 20, 2021 | Non-Fiction
Learn how a Prussian princess grew up to be Russia’s longest-ruling female leader! Born in 1729, Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbs was never supposed to come to power. But at age sixteen, she married the heir to the Russian throne. By 1762, Sophie, known now as...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 20, 2021 | Non-Fiction
Find out how stories about his son’s stuffed bear, famously known as Winnie the Pooh, made A. A. Milne one of the world’s best-known children’s authors in this informative biography from the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Series, Who Was?. Born in...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 20, 2021 | Non-Fiction
Learn how this Emmy-winning host, producer, and television personality became the world’s most famous drag queen. RuPaul Andre Charles always knew he was meant to be a performer. Even as a young child, he loved to dress up and imitate the glamorous women he saw...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 20, 2021 | Non-Fiction
How did a woman with the desire to help others became the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America? Born in 1860 in Savannah, Georgia, Juliette Gordon Low grew up having the finest clothes and education. She was expected to be a prim and proper lady,...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 20, 2021 | Non-Fiction
How did a little girl who loved horses become the longest reigning monarch in England? Find out in this addition to the #1 New York Times best-selling Who Was? series! In 1936, the life of ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth of York changed forever. Although she was a...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 20, 2021 | Non-Fiction
Join the American journalist Henry Morton Stanley on his amazing quest to find David Livingstone, England’s most celebrated explorer. The world was fascinated and concerned. Dr. David Livingstone’s 1866 expedition to find the source of the Nile River in...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 20, 2021 | Non-Fiction
Learn how this heroic group of American Indian men created a secret, unbreakable code and helped the US win major battles during World War II. By the time the United States joined the Second World War in 1941, the fight against Nazi and Axis powers had already been...
