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...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 10, 2011 | Non-Fiction
If you don’t have the guts to take the gore, don’t read this book. It comes with this fair warning! Heed these words well. This book describes in gruesome detail how nineteen very famous people bit the dust. From King Tut to George Washington and from...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 10, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Sometimes it seems as though life has taken away everything you’ve got and left you with nothing but pain and questions. Set in 1937 with the boxing matches of Joe Louis for a background, this is the story of three children, Otis, Willie and Hibernia. Otis had a...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 10, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Twelve year old Quebrado whose name means the broken one is a child of two cultures. He is half islander and half Spanish and now he is a slave of a pirate aboard ship in the Caribbean Sea in 1509. Aboard this pirate ship is Alonso de Ojeda who made his fortune...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 10, 2011 | Humor
Kevin, star of Liar, Liar, returns with a cash flow problem this time. His parents have cut off his allowance since the lying episodes and his part time jobs have dried up. Now there is a dance coming up at school and Kevin would love to take the beautiful blonde,...
