by Barb Langridge | Jan 29, 2012 | Non-Fiction
A companion to the best-selling Anna Banana: 101 Jump-Rope Rhymes, here is a collection of nearly forty fingerplays and action rhymes that have been chanted, sung, and enjoyed for generations. Children and their parents can join the eentsy, weentsy spider in its climb...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 29, 2012 | Historical Fiction
Mavis Elizabeth Betterly – May B. lives on the Kansas prairie with her family. May really wants to be a teacher someday but struggles with reading and the new Teacher makes her feel incapable of learning. May is told by her parents, she can help the family by working...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2012 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
BONE is more thrilling, adventurous, and hilarious than ever in this conclusion to Jeff Smith’s bestselling comic book saga! It’s full-fledged war as Briar, the rat creatures, and the Pawan army storm the city of Atheia. The Bone cousins, Thorn, and...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2012 | Action / Adventure
HOW FAR WILL OTTO GO TO PROTECT HIS FRIENDS? Otto Malpense and his friends thought their first year at the Higher Institute of Villainous Education was the most adventurous and exciting that they would ever encounter. They were dead wrong. When Otto and Wing are...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2012 | Fiction
A delightfully entertaining story of family and culture from acclaimed author Julia Alvarez. Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to worry about! Tía Lola, his quirky, carismática, and maybe magical aunt makes his life even more unpredictable...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2012 | Fiction
Welcome to Tía Lola’s bed and breakfast! With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tía Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois’ grand old Vermont house to visitors from all over. But Tía Lola and the children soon realize...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2012 | Picture Book
Rabbit confides to Owl that he is planning a party, but as the message is passed from animal to animal it gets more and more confused.–from the publisher “I’m having a party tomorrow,” Rabbit whispers to Owl. “It’s a...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2012 | Historical Fiction
After following her father from their home in England to the plains of Minnesota, Mary must summon the strength to face the challenges and heartbreaking losses that she and her family encounter. “Land of the Buffalo Bones” is the diary of Mary Rodgers,...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2012 | Historical Fiction
Canadian Library Association Book of the Year 2002 In 1897, in Guelph, Ontario, eleven-year-old Victoria chronicles her family’s experiences when they take in twelve-year-old Mary Anna, an orphan, who has been separated from her siblings.—from the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2012 | Historical Fiction
In 1852, during the height of the California Gold Rush, ten-year-old Wong Ming-Chung makes the dangerous trip to America to join his uncle on his hunt for a fortune. The true treasure for Ming-Chung, though, is America itself. In the midst of the lawless, often...
