by Barb Langridge | Jul 21, 2011 | Picture Book
Hooray, we’re going to the zoo! Sadie is so happy. Her family has started out for the zoo many times and something has always gotten in the way. Her mother tripped over a toy fire truck so they headed to the hospital. Their pet dog ran off so they headed out to...
by Katy Manck | Jul 21, 2011 | Paranormal
Another summer of ancient ruins in Italy? Teen sisters Gabi and Lia risk sneaking into the latest find, only to be whirled away when their hands touch the handprints near the warrior mural! Gabriella emerges from the old tomb into the middle of a battle, with horsemen...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 21, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Scientists have mapped less than 10 percent of the ridge of underwater mountains in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. It is here that 95 percent of the volcanic activity on earth occurs. And it is also where the scientist Rich Lutz has tracked the remarkable evolution...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 21, 2011 | Fantasy
Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 19, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Elephants and rhinos are herbivores which means they only eat plants. But if they met in battle who would win? Who has the bigger brain? Who is stronger? Who is faster? Who has the most endurance? Did you know elephants have receptors in their trunks and in their...
by Joanne | Jul 17, 2011 | Chick Lit
Sasha Silver continues her journey of boarding school drama and competitive horsemanship in book #12 of the Canterbrook Crest series. Sasha and her BFFs Brittany, Alison and “frenemy” Heather — apparently in a previous book there were some serious middle-school...
by Joanne | Jul 17, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
“I head downhill and cut along the highway, and of course they’re at it again. The dog fighters. At the end of the alley. They got it going on in the back of a van with the seats ripped out. I see through the back doors left open. Men drinking forties...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 17, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
An Afternoon Center? What’s that? Mitchell McCabe who has trouble remembering things has just begun the first week of school and is watching the clock on the classroom wall very closely. As he charges out the door at last, a sixth grader named Peter Petway,...
by Joanne | Jul 17, 2011 | Non-Fiction
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by Barb Langridge | Jul 16, 2011 | Sports
Football is fun—but how does it work? Find all the basics in this lively guide for the youngest football fans from Washington Post/Children’s Book Guild Award winner Gail Gibbons! In this illustrated picture book, young readers will learn about: The markings on a...
