by Barb Langridge | Jul 14, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age—literally! (He was six feet four inches tall.) As sixteenth President of the United States, he guided the nation through the Civil War and saw the abolition of slavery. But Lincoln was tragically shot...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 14, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Based on a true moment in American history, this funny picture book celebrates the ingenuity and community spirit of one small New England town as it attempts to make the country’s biggest cheese for the nation’s greatest man.–from the publisher A...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 14, 2011 | Picture Book
On a North Carolina plantation, a young slave girl’s Christmas is brightened by the Johnkankus parade she witnesses as she waits for her parents to come home.–from the publisher *************** As Christmas Day dawns, excitement runs through the slave...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 14, 2011 | Historical Fiction
It’s August 1941, and Brick and Mariel both love the Brooklyn Dodgers. Brick listens to their games on the radio in Windy Hill, in upstate New York, where his family has an apple orchard; Mariel, once a polio patient in the hospital in Windy Hill, lives in Brooklyn...
by Katy Manck | Jul 13, 2011 | Sports
The soldiers didn’t care that the homemade soccer ball was Deo’s prized possession. They didn’t care that Deo’s village was hungry. They didn’t plan to leave anyone alive to complain… Suddenly Deo and his older brother Innocent are on the run through the scrublands of...
by Joanne | Jul 13, 2011 | Fiction
Carlos Ruiz Zafon will make you feel like you are being told a story around a campfire with his shadowy tale of two twins that were separated at birth for their own protection in 1930s Calcutta.While Sheere’s grandmother raises her, Ben is dropped off at an orphanage...
by Joanne | Jul 13, 2011 | Science Fiction
The Elders always did what was best for the group, right? No one questions them, knowing that the Enclave’s residents very existence is owed to the Elder’s management. But why do they not tolerate differences? Why do they ignore the warning signs of danger from the...
by Joanne | Jul 13, 2011 | Non-Fiction
I mistakenly thought this book was fiction, but instead it is a delightful memoir about growing up in the sixties. The short chapters follow author Ann Hodgman from her earliest memories up until the sixth grade, when she claims it “became so embarrassing, that...
by Joanne | Jul 13, 2011 | Picture Book
I can just imagine how I’d set it all up beforehand: a stack of two-foot-long branches; an assortment of large stones; a selection of discarded grown-ups shoes; a box of conch shells; and a few smaller-size worn-out tires. There is nothing better than finding a...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 12, 2011 | Picture Book
You had to be really, really good to play in the 1946 championship game between the Racine Belles and the Rockford Peaches. Sitting in the stands, Margaret thrills to every crack of the bat. Someday she hopes to join her heroes like Sophie “the Flash”...
