by Barb Langridge | Jun 4, 2011 | Paranormal
Wolfsbane is the sequel to Nightshade, book #1 in Andrea Cremer’s new series. You really need to read the first book to completely understand the first part of this book. Calla wakes up in her enemy’s lair not knowing if she is going to live or die. She remembers she...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 4, 2011 | Mystery
Saxby Smart is a schoolboy private detective who likes to solve any mystery he can find. His office is in the garden shed in his backyard where he has his thinking chair to help him solve his crimes. Saxby invites readers to help him solve his mysteries by following...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 4, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Alex is starting her senior year of high school. She is still trying to cope with the mysterious accidental death of her mother many years ago and her father who is emotionally distant and hardly talks to her. Her best friends from childhood, Zach and Bethany have...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 4, 2011 | Historical Fiction
“Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find.”—Booklist, starred review Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 2, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
When a classmate commits suicide due to bullying, Kana Goldberg — half Japanese, half Jewish American– is sent to spend the summer in her mother’s homeland of Japan to reflect on the actions her and her cliquish classmates might have played that led Ruth’s...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 2, 2011 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
In the spirit of To Kill a Mockingbird, Jasper Jones is an outcast in a small mining town in Australia. Whatever laws are broken, Jasper is always the suspect. Imagine his fear when he stumbles across a dead girl in his favorite hideaway spot out in the secluded woody...
by Katy Manck | Jun 2, 2011 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
Jacob stopped believing in Grandpa’s monster stories years ago, but what else could kill someone so thoroughly? Fatally attacked, Grandpa gasps that Jacob “must go to the island” where he will be safe, as he sees the blackened creature of his nightmares disappear into...
by Katy Manck | Jun 1, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Surely the potato blight won’t hurt Esty’s family, her papa being agent for the landowner, right? But the famine in 1840s Ireland cuts deep, and 12 year old Esty finds herself hired out as a servant, with Mama and Grandpa sent from their big house to a tiny cottage....
by Barb Langridge | Jun 1, 2011 | Non-Fiction
This charming book introduces one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, Diego Rivera, to young readers. It tells the story of Diego as a young, mischievous boy who demonstrated a clear passion for art and then went on to become one of the most famous...
by Barb Langridge | May 30, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Having one of those days when “there’s nothing to do?” Pick up this book and suddenly the world is filled with possibilities. Divided into six major sections, there are step by step instructions to teach you everything from sawing someone in half as...
