by Barb Langridge | Jan 31, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
In the remarkable, bizarre, and heart-wrenching summer before Cullen Witter’s senior year of high school, he is forced to examine everything he thinks he understands about his small and painfully dull Arkansas town. His cousin overdoses; his town becomes absurdly...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 31, 2012 | Picture Book
Award-winning author/illustrator Denise Fleming gives young readers a frog’s eye view of life in a pond throughout the seasons in the Caldecott Honor Book, In the Small, Small Pond. A child explores the wonders of the natural world in this rhyming, beautiful bright...
by Katy Manck | Jan 30, 2012 | Paranormal
At last, Esmerine has earned her siren’s golden belt, imbued it with magic so she can defend the mermaid village and the sea. She’s excited to join her older sister Dosia as a siren; they’ve always enjoyed that junction of air and ocean, not to mention their glimpses...
by Dawn | Jan 30, 2012 | Fiction
This book is about the youngest princess who doesn’t seem to be gifted with any of the beauty or special abilities granted to her sisters. She is, in fact, quite ordinary. Yet she is thrust into an adventure to save her family and may learn that ordinary can...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 30, 2012 | Fantasy
The beloved Pennykettle dragons and their valiant human friends have vanished as our story opens. We are no longer visiting Crescent Lane but find ourselves now in a parallel universe called Co:pern:ica. As the story opens, David, age twelve, has begun to reveal a...
by Dawn | Jan 30, 2012 | Chick Lit
Fun, quirky, and captivating Past Perfect is the latest from Leila Sales, author of “Mostly Mean Girls”. Chelsea has dreams of escaping her parents’ constant attention and working with them in Essex Revolutionary War re-enactment village again this...
by Joanne | Jan 30, 2012 | Historical Fiction
This is an open letter to Stephen King: Dear Stephen (I use your first name since you have been in my head for at least 25 years. I hope you don’t mind): I now forgive you for Tommyknockers. I devoted three days of my time back in 1988 devouring The Tommyknocker...
by Joanne | Jan 30, 2012 | Picture Book
“Ella Kate started out small…but then she grew and grew and grew until she was eight feet tall!” This fictionalized account is of the life of Ella Kate Ewing, 1872-1913, who was eight feet tall by the age of seventeen. Ella Kate became financially independent by...
by Joanne | Jan 29, 2012 | Humor
“Today was like any other day. The dish ran away with the spoon.” Little Boy Blue is all grown up and a detective trying to find Little Miss Muffet in this alternative view of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes. Younger readers will like the story line while older readers...
by Joanne | Jan 29, 2012 | Picture Book
Plowing a potato field in 1920, a fourteen-year-old farm boy has a brainstorm. He saw in the parallel rows of overturned earth a way to ‘make pictures fly through the air’. And just eight years later, he made his idea a reality when he transmitted the world’s first...
