by Barb Langridge | Apr 27, 2025 | Picture Book
This stunning, profound book explores the life cycle of a tree—not just through a season but across decades—as well as the other living things that depend upon it. How can something stay itself and yet change and grow? The oak tree shows us how. Sometimes things...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 27, 2025 | Picture Book
From United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and Pura Belpré Award–winning illustrator Adriana Garcia: a luminous benediction for a girl’s journey through life, and a celebration of our connections to the world around us. A baby girl is welcomed to the breathing world...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 27, 2025 | Picture Book
Elsa carries her chessboard everywhere, always ready for a game. When World War II forces her from Europe, can chess help make America home? Growing up in 1900s Vienna, Elsa’s brothers are always playing chess. “No girls!” they tell her when she first asks to learn;...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 27, 2025 | Non-Fiction
How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit “revolutionary suicide” by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 27, 2025 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
The first book in the beloved Lemonade War series—a clever blend of humor, math wizardry, and business know-how—is now available in a full-color graphic novel. Evan Treski is people smart. He’s good at talking to people, even grown-ups. His younger sister, Jessie, on...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 27, 2025 | Picture Book
This gorgeously illustrated picture book brings to full color the adventures of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel The Wild Robot. Roz is not where she’s supposed to be. You see, the robot wasn’t designed to live in the wilderness. But when she washes up on an...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 27, 2025 | Picture Book
A stunning picture book from acclaimed author Katherine Applegate, adapted from the #1 bestselling middle-grade novel that spent over 52 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list! Odder spends her days playing underwater and learning life lessons from her mother....
by Barb Langridge | Apr 27, 2025 | Action / Adventure
The highly anticipated follow-up to the Newbery Award-winner The Eyes & the Impossible as half-dog, half-coyote, all hero Johannes ventures into the wild, where new friends and new adventure await. Johannes has always lived in an urban park by the sea. It’s been a...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 25, 2025 | Fiction
A Hilarious Tale of Friendship and Mischief: In the third installment of the Frank and the Puppy series, Frank and Sunny face their greatest challenge yet: setting boundaries. Join Frank the tuxedo cat and Sunny the corgi pup as they face their biggest challenge yet:...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 25, 2025 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
The Prince and the Dressmaker goes to Austenland in this historically inspired, joyfully queer, stunningly romantic graphic novel mash-up of Jane Austen novels—where two friends discover their feelings for each other and find a space in their world for their love and...