by Joanne | Nov 28, 2011 | Historical Fiction
“The dead house was surrounded by wild trees… ”That’s it?” said Ricky. “That’s the cemetery for the Union soldiers. It looks haunted.” During one week in June 1959, Bobby and his older brother Ricky, along with their mother and recently widowed grandmother,...
by Joanne | Nov 28, 2011 | Fantasy
Three delinquent villains, a school that will teach them to be bad, and one unbelievable assignment. When Rune Drexler is assigned a Plot to kidnap a princess, steal a baby, find a henchman, AND overthrow a kingdom, he knows he is going to need all the help he can...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 28, 2011 | Fiction
On a summer day Mama and Papa stopped arguing, and Papa walked away. “Click,” said four year old Elinor. William, headed to the fifth grade, felt tears well up in his eyes. This is the story of a family with a mother and two children who are having to...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 27, 2011 | Non-Fiction
“Violent, crude, hairy, rude.” Robbers and underdogs. These are daring and dangerous criminals… pirates. But what were they like as regular people? Here are the stories of twenty men and women, all pirates, told s factually as possible and with the...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 27, 2011 | Non-Fiction
When a young boy gets stung by a bee, he runs to his grandmother, Mawmaw, who tells him that was quite a saltypie. She knows all about saltypies. When Mawmaw was young and her family moved to Texas from Oklahoma, she woke up in her new home, walked out on the porch...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 27, 2011 | Non-Fiction
If you can hide the cover of this book from your young reader, you can have some fun reading the clues together to see if you can guess who this book is telling you about. If he breathes through gills, uses his fins to move forward and turn, and likes to keep his...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 27, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Who am I? Can you see me? Here are some clues that might help you. My eyes are on stalks and I have 8 legs. I shed my shell and I have one claw that I used to rip and one claw that I use to crush. Now do you know who I am? Turn the pages and look at the bright...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 27, 2011 | Non-Fiction
How does corn grow? Using vivid photographs we watch as corn starts small as a tiny seed and then grows a stalk with lots of leaves and suddenly, peeking out from under those leaves is an ear of corn. The book combines the magic and wonder of nature with the practical...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 27, 2011 | Non-Fiction
This brightly illustrated early reader offers six practice sentences with words that have a silent h in them. A boy dressed as a ghost is paired with “Jake pretends to be a ghost.” Can you find the silent h in that sentence? After the practice pages, there...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 27, 2011 | Non-Fiction
If you’re working with a beginning reader and need some resources for teaching tricky consonants, here is a nice little series to work with. This book focuses on the “ng” sound. Using photographs of real kids doing real things and sometimes doing...
