by Barb Langridge | Dec 17, 2011 | Picture Book
How do you bake an American pie? Preheat the world until fiery hot with a hunger and thirst to be free. Now find a giant melting pot on the shores of a great shining sea. From the bestselling author of Bear Snores On comes a remarkable recipe for America. Including a...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 17, 2011 | Picture Book
Beautiful paintings highlight the ways various peoples from around the world welcome the sun and the start of a new day in this Caldecott Honor–winning picture book. Some people say there is a new sun every day, and that it begins its life at dawn and lives for one...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 17, 2011 | Fiction
What happens when Trucktown has a snow day? It’s time for Jack and the gang to have some seriously frosty fun and clear the streets while they’re at it!—from the publisher 24 pages 978-1416941408 ...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 17, 2011 | Picture Book
For generations these classic, high-octane rhymes, songs, and tales have been passed down from truck to truck. Lucky for us, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature has collected them all into one really big, noisy volume. From “Peter Peter Payload...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 17, 2011 | Historical Fiction
To forge an incredibly powerful political alliance, thirteen-year-old Marie Antoinette of Austria is betrothed to Dauphin Louis Auguste, who will one day be the king of France. To prepare her for this awesome responsibility, she must be trained to write, read, speak...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 17, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Experience the sumptuous wealth and the unforgettable drama within the Moghul Dynasty of seventeenth-century India through Newbery Honor- author Kathryn Lasky’s diary of Princess Jahanara. In the 1600s, the Mughal emperors of India were among the greatest rulers...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 17, 2011 | Humor
Everyone’s favorite Mackerel Middle-Schooler, Jamie Kelly, is back with another hilarious, candid (and sometimes not-so-nice) diary! There’s a new girl in at Mackerel Middle School. Colette is friendly, fabulous, smart, totally talented, and an all-around...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 17, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Intrigue and danger increase as Princess Kazunomiya’s once-sheltered life in nineteenth-century Japan changes, in Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky’s latest addition to THE ROYAL DIARIES series. Kazunomiya, along with her royal family, is thought to be a...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 16, 2011 | Sports
The breakthrough modern sports novel The Contender shows readers the true meaning of being a hero. This acclaimed novel by celebrated sportswriter Robert Lipsyte, the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in YA fiction, is the story of a...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 16, 2011 | Picture Book
“On the first day of Christmas My true love gave to me A partridge in a pear tree.” For many centuries young and old alike have been singing about the maids a-milking, the lords a-leaping, and a partridge in a pear tree. A Christmas carol, a parlor game,...
