by Barb Langridge | Nov 27, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Hiram Bingham had come to Peru in search of Vilcapampa, the lost city of the Inca. There in front of him in the town of Cusco, he was staring at the stonework, “huge stones cut so perfectly that not even a razor blade could be slipped between them.”...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 27, 2011 | Picture Book
Tomorrow is Paulo’s birthday and he is so excited. He lives with his family deep in the Amazon jungle where they fish and plant manioc and for the first time ever, he and his father will be riding the steamer down the Amazon. The next morning they make their way...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 26, 2011 | Picture Book
The Kamishibai man used to ride his bicycle into town where he would tell stories to the children and sell them candy, but gradually, fewer and fewer children came running at the sound of his clappers. They were all watching their new televisions instead. Finally,...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 26, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Winner of the 1967 Newbery Medal The beloved author of Across Five Aprils and No Promises in the Wind presents one of her most cherished novels, the Newbery Award-winning story of a young girl’s coming of age… Julie would remember her happy days at Aunt Cordelia’s...
by Joanne | Nov 26, 2011 | Humor
“A dog followed me home from the library today. I’ve always wanted a dog, and this one has a lot of personality. He even smiles! Can I keep him?” When a dog appears at #43 Cemetery Road, Seymour is delighted. His adoptive parents, writer Ignatius B. Grumply and...
by Joanne | Nov 26, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Gina has told everyone she is going to be the star of the play at the Zigzag Afternoon center, before the play has even been written! Her friend Destiny also wants to be the star. SO with some bumps along the way, everyone’s individual talents are recognized and all...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 26, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Love fast cars? Compare the Lamborghini, the Ferrari F50, the Dodge Viper, the Chevrolet Corvette and more. Each car has a fact bubble which includes engine weight, engine maximum power, acceleration speed, and more. Great for reluctant readers who need to learn to...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 26, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Everyone goes to the market. Come along as we visit marketplaces in Ecuador, Nepal, Ireland, Uganda, Morocco and the Fulton Fish Market in New York City, USA. The merchandise for sale varies widely from dates to wool carpets and from donkeys to tiny bananas. The...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 26, 2011 | Non-Fiction
What kinds of jobs did our earliest ancestors do? What jobs are only recent? Would a caveman have been a television journalist? We began having jobs to create food to eat, and then moved on to jobs creating pots and jewelry. By the mid-1700s BCE Babylon created laws...
by Katy Manck | Nov 25, 2011 | Science Fiction
No one expected a 10-year-old to break out of prison like Day did. No one expected a 10-year-old to get a perfect Trial score like June did either. Future Los Angeles only educates the very brightest – the middling ones become drudge labor, the Trial failures are...
