by Joanne | Jul 12, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Once in a lifetime, an achievement in literature comes along that literally sings itself off the pages! The Help held this reviewer spellbound from the opening paragraph. Told in chapters by black maids and nannies with a few chapters told by Jackson debutante...
by Joanne | Jul 12, 2011 | Chick Lit
Mom just walked away from her, walked away from her toddler daughter waiting on the beach, walked into the waves and never came back out. When Dad’s job takes them back to the beachside town where her parents met and fell in love, Anna thinks that the years following...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 12, 2011 | Chick Lit
Mary Elizabeth, or as she prefers to be called, Lola, is a DRAMA QUEEN, the ultimate star of her own life and will happily lie to anyone just to make things a little more exciting. Her mother, a single parent, and her two little sisters don’t come into her...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 11, 2011 | Picture Book
Do you wake up with a wiggle? Do you wiggle out of bed? For energetic toddlers (are there any who aren’t?), here’s a book that invites them to wiggle along with the story. Told in rollicky, wiggly rhyme that begs to be read again and again, Doreen...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 11, 2011 | Mystery
Aunt Eater the anteater is off to a costume party, and it’s a good thing she’s dressed as a detective — Halloween is the most mysterious night of the year! Man-eating monsters, headless ghosts, and other eerie encounters await Aunt Eater. With so...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 10, 2011 | Fantasy
Starting out life as an orphan, Frederick Lincoln has no idea he’s been adopted by an brownie named Billy Bly. When Frederick is chosen to be trained as a footman in the house of wizard Thomas Schofield and his wife, Frederick is filled with curiosity and a hint...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 10, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
This summer is going to be different for the Penderwick family as the oldest sister, Rosalind, is going to Maine while the rest of the family heads to the beach. Happily the Penderwick girls will be joined by Jeffrey. But Skye is not comfortable in her skin. She is...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 10, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Young Tinh sits in the temple listening to the monks as they chant the Buddha’s diamonds. “Your mother is a diamond.” But Tinh longs to be outside playing. He doesn’t have a sense that the Buddha’s diamonds belong to him. The next morning...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 10, 2011 | Picture Book
it’s a hot summer night and the family is busy doing what they always do. Tv, phone and internet and everyone in his or her own little world. That is until the power goes out and suddenly life changes. Everyone is disconnected in one fell swoop. Now it’s...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 10, 2011 | Action / Adventure
Cue the Mission Impossible theme song. Twelve year old twins, Coke and Pepsi are heading off on summer vacation. It’s been the usual end of year with a small run-in with the health teacher, Mrs. Higgins in which the twins were nearly burned alive in a suspicious...
