by Barb Langridge | Jan 17, 2012 | Picture Book
On a moonlit winter night, a team of dogs pulls a sled, taking the narrator and readers on a wondrous ride through the snow, into and out of the woods. It is a ride you’ll wish would never end. Through this exquisite prose poem, Gary Paulsen shares the joy, the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 17, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
A remarkable novel about one of the most important, and loving, relationships in Gary Paulsen’s life. The wonderful grandmother seen through the eyes of a young boy in The Cookcamp reaches out to him at 14, offering him a haven from his harsh and painful family...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 17, 2012 | Picture Book
Hugo finds the end of a red string in his house. As he follows the string out of his house and around his town, he meets others who are convinced, as Hugo is, that there must be something wonderful at the end of this string. Children will find at the end of the...
by Joanne | Jan 16, 2012 | Action / Adventure
Scotty thinks it is just another New England winter day in school. His first basketball game is that night and he is a sophomore playing on varsity and he is pumped up and ready to play. What starts out as a typical snow storm soon turns in to near blizzard...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 16, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
In the winter, life in McKinley, Minnesota, revolves around the rinks, where kids play hockey and grown-ups skate to scratchy phonograph records. Then, the year Marsh and his best friend, Willy, are twelve, Carl appears at the rink, wearing a battered, old leather...
by Joanne | Jan 16, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Clara has just ended her relationship with Christian, who is pathologically possessive. But Christian can’t let go and keeps calling and trying to see her. Clara’s fear grows and things escalate out of control so Clara’s father takes her off to a quiet coastal town...
by Joanne | Jan 16, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Ella attends the Willing School on scholarship where she is invisible to most people. Frankie and Sadie are her best friends and she has fallen in love with Edward Willing a 19th century painter (who is dead) and has his picture hanging in her bedroom. Ella loves her...
by Joanne | Jan 15, 2012 | Mystery
16 year-old Callie spends her summers in New York with her Uncle Harry who works with rare manuscripts. When Callie finds a hidden diary in the margins of a rare book she is drawn into a summer of intrigue and romance. Her uncle introduces her to August who helps her...
by Joanne | Jan 15, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Nora’s dad has gone to Texas to find work to support the family but promises that he will be back for her 15th birthday quinceanera celebration. It is now three years later and the money has stopped coming and they have not heard from papa for a long time. Nora leaves...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 15, 2012 | Humor
A collection of jokes, riddles, tongue twisters, tricks, games, poems, and stories.—from the publisher 302 pages 9780590709187 Ages 6-9 Keywords: humor, fun, jokes and riddles, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8...
