by Barb Langridge | Jan 16, 2025 | Graphic Non-Fiction
Experience The Life-Changing Magic of Chess, a beginner’s guide with secrets from Grandmaster Maurice Ashley! After making history as the chess world’s first Black Grandmaster, Maurice Ashley went on to become a three-time national championship coach and...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 13, 2025 | Fantasy
In this thrilling paranormal YA romance debut steeped in folklore, two estries—owl-shifting female vampires from Jewish tradition—face New York’s monstrous underworld to save the girl one of them loves with help from the boy one of them fears before they are,...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 13, 2025 | Romance
Dash & Lily meets Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in Edward Underhill’s new whirlwind rom-com about two queer teens who spend one life-changing day together in New York City. Abby Akerman believes in the Universe. After all, her Midwest high school marching...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 13, 2025 | Fantasy
Inspired by stories about the real-world Great Dismal Swamp, this acclaimed fantasy explores alternate history, a family’s supernatural connections to the swamp, and the strength that comes in knowing your roots. “Four thousand six hundred forty-two steps in,”...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 11, 2025 | Fiction
Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead, Natalie Lloyd, and Jasmine Warga, this beautiful novel in verse explores one girl’s struggle to regain her magic after a hurricane forces her to move away from her beloved ocean that, she believes, has given her special powers....
by Barb Langridge | Jan 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead, Natalie Lloyd, and Jasmine Warga, this beautiful novel in verse explores one girl’s struggle to regain her magic after a hurricane forces her to move away from her beloved ocean that, she believes, has given her special powers....
by Barb Langridge | Jan 11, 2025 | Fiction
In the second book in this wry series, award-winning author Patrick Ness explores school anxiety and the highs and lows of friendship with sidesplitting honesty—and pits our heroes against a slippery new supervillain. On what should be a normal school day at their...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 11, 2025 | Fiction
From the best-selling author of A Monster Calls, this funny, wise middle-grade series explodes every stereotype—including what it means to be a hero—in a brilliant reptilian take on surviving school. When Principal Wombat makes monitor lizards Zeke, Daniel, and Alicia...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 11, 2025 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Laurie Morrison’s Keeping Pace is a poignant middle-grade novel about friends-turned-rivals training for a half-marathon—and rethinking what it means to win and what they mean to each other. Grace has been working for years to beat her former friend Jonah Perkins’s...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 11, 2025 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
A funny, poignant middle grade novel about a tween who navigates questions of identity and friendship when her anonymous web comic goes viral, from the acclaimed author of Tethered to Other Stars. Mallory Marsh is an expert at molding into whatever other people want...
