by Barb Langridge | Sep 21, 2025 | Fiction
Princess Truly gardens and has fun with her friends, across three rhyming stories perfect for beginning readers! You can read with Acorn! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic’s early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 21, 2025 | Picture Book
Adam Goodes has come a long way since his retirement from AFL, 10 years ago this month and so has the literature about our First Nations peoples that we, and particularly out young people, have access to. What was once pretty much limited to “Tales from the...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 20, 2025 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
From bestselling author Sonora Reyes comes a poignant and searingly honest companion novel to the multi-award-winning The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School, following beloved character Cesar Flores as he comes to terms with his sexuality, his new bipolar diagnosis,...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 20, 2025 | Non-Fiction
An engaging, accessible look at internet algorithms and the importance of bursting your information bubble We are all in information bubbles, whether we realize it or not. The content that fills our bubble is the product of all the likes, clicks, and shares we make...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 20, 2025 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide comes a dark fantasy about a girl who will risk everything—posing as a maid, confronting powerful enemies, and unraveling deadly secrets—all to save her missing sister from the enigmatic House of Quiet. To save her...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 20, 2025 | Fantasy
The final book in the lauded Only a Monster trilogy is here—where the unstoppable love and high stakes of Divine Rivals meets the propulsive thrills of This Savage Song in a last-ditch, breathless race against time. Joan has failed to stop Eleanor. Now Eleanor rules...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 20, 2025 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
Riverdale meets The Queen’s Gambit in this fun, twisty thriller by an Edgar Award-winning author, featuring a deliciously dysfunctional family with dark secrets and shifting alliances. Fourteen-year-old chess whiz Ruby Vossen tries to keep to herself. She refuses to...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 20, 2025 | Fiction
In a soaring conclusion to a moving trilogy, national treasure Kate DiCamillo shows how friendship, trust, and stories—lived and shared—transform us. Orris and Timble are friends. Orris is a rat, Timble is an owl, and they meet each night in an old barn to share...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 20, 2025 | Fantasy
Full of magic, mermaids, and friendship, Coral Keepers is the perfect epic underwater early chapter book series for newly independent readers!Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic’s early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 19, 2025 | Fantasy
The dragons are coming…are you prepared? This thrilling, dystopian adventure story is perfect for fans of Wings of Fire and Impossible Creatures. Lucas isn’t having the best summer. While normally he’d be away at camp, this year he’s stuck home,...
