by Barb Langridge | Nov 24, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Bird is determined and patient. So patient that she’s been hiding out behind a farmhouse for weeks waiting for Cecil. Bird misses her bedroom, her friends, and especially her mother. But more than that, she misses the feeling of family, and that means finding Cecil,...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 23, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Winner of the 1980 Newbery Medal This book is written in the form of a journal kept by Catherine Hall, a young girl living in a rural village in New England with her widower father and her younger sister. The journal details her daily life between the years 1830 and...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 23, 2011 | Non-Fiction
There are millions of different kinds of plants and animals living on the earth. Many millions more lived here in the past. Where did they all come from? Why have some become extinct and others lived on? In this remarkable book for children, Steve Jenkins explores the...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 22, 2011 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Max Axiom was hiking in the wilderness one day and was struck by lightning. When he came to, he found he wanted to know as much about science as possible. He also learned that he now had super intelligence, the ability to “shrink to the size of an atom,”...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 22, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Today there are over 300 million people living in the United States. That’s a really big number for a child to try to grasp but if you shrink that number down to 100 people and imagine America as a small village of just those 100 then things start to make sense....
by Barb Langridge | Nov 22, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Let’s go shopping! These words mean very different things depending on where you live and shop in the world. If you’re in Bangkok, Thailand, you might want to go to the floating market where boats are filled with coconuts and mangoes and durians and...
by Joanne | Nov 22, 2011 | Picture Book
In this mother-daughter sequel, Geraldine has to cope with the fact that she is not the star this time. Despite her “sparkle” inside and out, another girl named Tiffany gets the lead of the Crystal Princess. Geraldine is dancing the part of the jester, which she is...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 22, 2011 | Picture Book
Billy is a lucky little boy whose best friend is a grizzly bear named Griz. Griz is enormous. The adventure of Billy and Griz is told with overly large font and great big illustrations that are perfect for a storytime. These two best friends share secrets and peanut...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 22, 2011 | Non-Fiction
If you’ve already discovered your creative self, you probably already know what materials you like to work with: paper, fabric, paint, or yarn, for example. Augusta Savage knew at an early age what she liked to work with: the “soft, gooey,...
by Joanne | Nov 22, 2011 | Picture Book
The adventure continues with Ike LaRue and his owner, Mrs. LaRue, as they set out on a vacation. Their vacation plans quickly change from taking a cruise to hitting the road with the neighbor’s two cats. Ike keeps the cat’s owner up to date as he journals his...
