by Barb Langridge | Oct 8, 2011 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
In the tradition of Calvin and Hobbes, MAL AND CHAD is a funny comic-strip graphic novel that makes a perfect first chapter book! Mal is a super kid genius and Chad is a talking dog, but no one knows it. What’s it like to be so extraordinary and yet so...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 8, 2011 | Picture Book
A trickster named Coyote rules her world, until a funny-looking stranger named Columbus changes her plans. Unimpressed by the wealth of moose, turtles, and beavers in Coyote’s land, he’d rather figure out how to hunt human beings to sell back in Spain. Thomas King...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 8, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he promised to deliver. But when he falls into a complicated relationship with the letter’s recipient, he...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 8, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Irish teenager Barry O’Neill is journeying to New York on the Titanic’s fateful maiden voyage. He’s homesick and worried about the Flynn boys traveling in steerage, who have threatened to throw him overboard. Little does Barry know that a struggle with the Flynns is...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 8, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Join Nancy in this comical and endearing addition to the Fancy Nancy I Can Read series, from the beloved New York Times bestselling author-illustrator team Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser. Picture Day is just about the most important day of the year, and Nancy...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 7, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Big cats. “It is feeding time. In the dense Indian jungle, an enormous Bengal tiger drags his fresh kill to a hiding place. Thousands of miles away on a dusty African plain, a male lion takes the first bite of a zebra….” If these two predators met...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 7, 2011 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Jin Wang starts at a new school where he’s the only Chinese-American student. When a boy from Taiwan joins his class, Jin doesn’t want to be associated with an FOB like him. Jin just wants to be an all-American boy, because he’s in love with an...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 7, 2011 | Picture Book
Newbery honor author Patricia C. McKissack’s original yarn of the Louisiana bayou is “told with verve and sly wit.” (Publishers Weekly, Starred review) Hugh Thomas knows that the Bayou Clapateaux is a mighty peculiar place. Why, back in 1903, Papa-Daddy...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 7, 2011 | Picture Book
Depicts the environment and daily life of two boys coming of age in Harlem.–from the publisher 96 pages 978-0803748590 Ages 10-14 *********** This reprint of the 1976 collaboration between Baldwin and artist friend Yoran Cazac was interesting...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 7, 2011 | Humor
It’s raining, and Pip Squeak’s roof is leaking. He tries to catch the water with pots, pans, cups, and cans — he even tries using a shoe! But the drips and the drops just won’t stop. What will Pip Squeak do?–from the publisher 32 pages ...
