by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Action / Adventure
IN THE OLD DAYS THERE WERE SONGS Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father’s coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up. Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns the last team of dogs in the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Non-Fiction
Gary Paulsen, three-time Newbery Honor author, is no stranger to adventure. He has flown off the back of a dogsled and down a frozen waterfall to near disaster, and waited for a giant bear to seal his fate with one slap of a claw. He has led a team of sled dogs toward...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Historical Fiction
In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was 15. He didn’t know what a “shooting war” meant or what he was fighting for. But he didn’t want to miss out on a great adventure. The...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Non-Fiction
An experienced Iditarod racer, Gary Paulsen celebrates his lead dog and longtime companion, Cookie, in this intimate essay. Paulsen takes readers inside the kennel as Cookie’s last litter of pups grow and learn to pull sleds across the snowy frontier.—from the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Humor
Father-and-son writing team Gary and Jim Paulsen pick up where their Road Trip left off. Ben has been invited to try out for a special hockey academy. But Dad wants Ben to catch up to the school field trip instead. So Ben, Dad, and their dogs, Atticus and Conor, jump...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Historical Fiction
A young Indian girl, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the mission, is helped by her Aunt Karana, whose story was told in Island of the Blue Dolphins.—from the publisher 192 pages 978-0547406336 ...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Historical Fiction
Bright Dawn was a teenaged Inuit girl. Black Star was her part-husky, mostly wolf, pet. Together they were about to begin the famous Iditarod dogsled race through the bitter cold of Alaska. Bright Dawn knew they would win, but she didn’t count on the cold,...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Poetry
Fourteen simple yet resonant poems, each written in the first person, celebrate the power of childhood from the perspectives of a rich variety of cultures. Echoing the diversity of the poets’ voices, each illustration has been created in a different technique,...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Picture Book
The gardener says the garden belongs to him. But the woodchuck insists that it’s his. And so do the rabbit, the butterfly, the squash bug, and the bumblebee. Even the tiny seeds and whistling weeds think the garden just couldn’t grow without them. As they...
by Joanne | Jan 20, 2012 | Picture Book
Oh, my! I just finished reading the just-published One Cool Friend by Maine’s own Toni Buzzeo, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist David Small. This wonderfully silly tale of a very proper young boy named Elliot and his surreptitious acquisition of a pet penguin is a...
