by Barb Langridge | Nov 16, 2011 | Picture Book
For young children who live in two homes, this bright, simple story with oversized flaps reassures young readers that there is love in each one. Her parents don’t live together anymore, so sometimes the child in this book lives with her mom and cat, and...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 16, 2011 | Fantasy
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler — the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 16, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
In the sequel to The Chalk Box Kid, Gregory’s friend Uncle Pancho is in trouble. The city wants to build a highway right where his house is. They will have to tear it down! Then Gregory has an idea. He will paint the story of Uncle Pancho’s life for the whole city to...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 16, 2011 | Science Fiction
I have a curse I have a gift I am a monster I’m more than human My touch is lethal My touch is power I am their weapon I will fight back Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 15, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Small Dinosaurs, Big Dinosaurs, Giant Dinosaurs and Gigantic Dinosaurs make up the four chapters of this Big Book. The pictures are big, the fonts are big and the more than 50 dinos are awesome. Learn what they ate, when they lived and best of all, how to pronounce...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 15, 2011 | Westerns
‘ ” “Whan that Aprille, with his shoures soote, The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote. And bathed every veyne in swich licuor, Of which vertu engendred is the floure….” ” ‘–a Texas Ranger quoting Chaucer?...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 15, 2011 | Westerns
Ever since The Virginian was published in 1903, the character contrast of the cowboy and the schoolmarm have been a popular and effective “western” plot formula. Ditto for male and female or husband and wife partnership in the mystery genre. Well, this...
by Katy Manck | Nov 14, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Locked in the orphanage outhouse, Maud never imagined that she would be rescued by spinster sisters to become a séance angel… Suddenly Maud has lovely new dresses and books with all the pages and a bedroom of her own! The Misses Hawthorne have all the “modern...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 14, 2011 | Fantasy
Every Tuesday, the Castle Glower adds rooms or hallways or turrets, or whatever it likes. It has always done so, just as it has always chosen the king of Glower. After Princess Celie’s parents and eldest brother are ambushed and believed dead, Celie and her elder...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 14, 2011 | Mystery
“Graveyards can be scary and sinister places, but to twelve-year old Lincoln Crenshaw, they’re practically home.” When Linc starts junior high in a public school in the fall after being homeschooled for years, he thinks this may be his chance to fit in and be...
