by Joanne | Jan 28, 2012 | Picture Book
“For pirates, going to school is as much fun as a game of ‘walk the plank’.” This rhyming tale depicts pirates as they attend school with their parrots. It compares and contrasts pirates’ behavior in school with that of normal school children. Pirate fans will find...
by Katy Manck | Jan 27, 2012 | Romance
Four minutes late! The plane is leaving; Hadley will be late for her father’s wedding. At least there’s a cute guy to talk to as her trans-Atlantic flight is rescheduled and she tries to calm down in the overcrowded airport. She can understand why Dad went to study in...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 27, 2012 | Picture Book
In the Spice Islands, where clove and nutmeg trees grow, a girl named Damura lived long ago. Damura is a beautiful girl, as kind and lovely as the little green parrot that perches on the nutmeg tree. But Damura’s stepmother and stepsister mistreat her. They...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 27, 2012 | Poetry
For readers of any age, a witty and strikingly irreverent collection of moral guidance Most notable among prolific English satirist Hilaire Belloc’s writings are the sharp and clever admonishments he composed for children. Collected here and illustrated to...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 27, 2012 | Fiction
Miguel Guzman isn’t exactly looking forward to the summer now that his mother has agreed to let the Sword family—a father, his three daughters, and their dog—live with them while they decide whether or not to move to Vermont. Little does Miguel know his aunt has...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 27, 2012 | Picture Book
A boy discovers that being little can mean big things in this charming story by author-illustrator Pat Hutchins. Titch is little. Everything he has is little, from his little pinwheel to his little tricycle. His brother Pete and his sister Mary are big. Everything...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 27, 2012 | Non-Fiction
A collection of rhymes suitable for writing in autograph books.—from the publisher 64 pages 978-0688131852 Ages 7-10 Keywords: rhymes, autograph books, yearbooks, 7 year old, 8 year old, 9 year old, 10 year...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 27, 2012 | Historical Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Katelan Janke writes this exciting and harrowing tale of Grace Edwards and her family’s struggle to survive the dangers and despair of the American Dust Bowl. In fourteen-year-old Katelan Janke’s first Dear America book, we meet Grace...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 27, 2012 | Fantasy
Centuries of wandering have taught the exiled dragon princess Shimmer that humans are beneath her notice. But she allows young Thorn to join her in the search for the evil witch Civet–and the quest to restore her dragon clan’s lost home.—from the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 27, 2012 | Historical Fiction
Francis Tucket, Lottie and Billy have survived extraordinary, hair-raising adventures in their quest to find Francis’s family, lost when he was kidnapped from a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. Now they meet up with a British explorer, bloodthirsty soldiers, and...
