by Barb Langridge | Jun 13, 2011 | Historical Fiction
If you think there is more to Paul Revere than Henry WadsworthLongfellow’s classic poem, then this eye-opening biography willreinforce your opinion. We are introduced to young Paul, the child of a French immigrant, learn how hespent his childhood, and follow him as he...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 13, 2011 | Fantasy
Imagine that your father has killed himself and you have no idea why. Worse your mother is kidnapped by a vampire and you find that the monster of Frankenstein is a family protector. Such are the events that have taken place in Jamie’s life within a short period of...
by Katy Manck | Jun 13, 2011 | Fiction
p>When a book was originally published in 1938 and it is still on the shelves of libraries today and being made into a major motion picture, you get the drift that it has some pretty special qualities that are universal and transcend the charge of social culture....
by Barb Langridge | Jun 11, 2011 | Picture Book
April and Esme are young tooth fairy sisters who haven’t taken their first tooth from anyone yet until April gets a call on her cell phone from Daniel’s grandmother requesting that April come to Daniel’s house to take his missing tooth away. After...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 11, 2011 | Chick Lit
Sweet, simple, poignant, and evocative of Love Story and The Notebook, Things I Know About Love will delight girl romance readers.Seventeen-year-old Livie Stowe is writing a blog about all the things she knows about love — she doesn’t know much since most...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 10, 2011 | Action / Adventure
Teen special agents investigate a deadly plane crash in the ninth book of the CHERUB series, which Rick Riordan says has “plenty of action.” CHERUB agents are highly trained, extremely talented—and all under the age of seventeen. For official purposes, these agents do...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 10, 2011 | Non-Fiction
The polar bear is the biggest and most powerful of the animals that are able to survive the hostile climate of the Arctic. Cubs are born during the cold dark winter, even though they start out with only a thin coat of fur and weigh a little over one pound. The mothers...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 9, 2011 | Fiction
After the battles, the heroics, the camaraderie, the deaths and injuries, the gains and losses, after theWAR, what does the soldier do? For 12 years, Cam Attling fought the invading Uplanders. The fight was in vain, the enemy has now settled in Cam’s country,...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 9, 2011 | Fantasy
Beautifully written, masterful storytelling, and poetic prose almost too beautiful not to be a song — this novel soars! Part fairy tale, part ghost story, part fantasy, part romance, part a tale of witches, The Near Witch is a pleasurable jaunt. Debut author...
by Katy Manck | Jun 9, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Stella is so much cooler than Jude, always showing up in her life just when Jude despairs of escaping her small British coastal town, the cliques at her high school, the woeful expression on her widowed dad’s face. Jude just couldn’t get through this summer –...
