by Barb Langridge | May 26, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Charles Dickens is one of the world’s greatest and best loved writers. To read Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, or Nicholas Nickleby is to be drawn into a society that still seems fresh and real today: nineteenth-century London with its extraordinary...
by Barb Langridge | May 26, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Barbara Park’s #1 New York Times bestselling chapter book series, Junie B. Jones, has been keeping kids laughing and reading for more than twenty-five years, with over 65 million copies sold. This graduation themed book is the perfect send-off for fans—young and...
by Barb Langridge | May 26, 2011 | Non-Fiction
In the summer of 1776, Joseph Plumb Martin was a fifteen-year-old Connecticut farm boy who considered himself “as warm a patriot as the best of them.” He enlisted that July and stayed in the revolutionary army until hostilities ended in 1783. Martin fought...
by Barb Langridge | May 25, 2011 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Hey! Who drew girly stuff in Aldo’s new sketchbook? He hid it in the secret tree fort on the way to (ugh) baseball practice – what a way to start the summer!When his artist grandmother gave him a sketchbook, she told 10 year-old Aldo to draw what he saw, so here’s his...
by Barb Langridge | May 25, 2011 | Paranormal
Suddenly orphaned, Kate and Georgia hope for safety at their grandparents’ calm Paris home. But danger is always nearby, as the sisters witness a miraculous rescue from the Seine River followed by a sword fight, then Kate narrowly escapes falling stone blocks in their...
by Barb Langridge | May 25, 2011 | Fantasy
Just when the land of Deorthas seems protected, enemies of young King Edoran capture his best friend and demand the royal Shield and Sword in exchange. Courtiers want to sacrifice Weasel to get back the symbols of rightful kingship, but Edoran doesn’t believe that the...
by Barb Langridge | May 25, 2011 | Action / Adventure
Gang warfare gets gruesome in the eighth 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 not exist. They are sent...
by Barb Langridge | May 24, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
How did Iris wind up at the rundown farm of a bitter aunt she’s never met? So much for the promise made to Iris’s dad on his deathbed that she would stay with Bea’s family for her last two years of school in Maine, vying for a softball scholarship. Hulking cousin...
by Barb Langridge | May 24, 2011 | Action / Adventure
Returning to 18th century England on a duplicate time machine, Kate and Peter try to unravel the snarl of events that their unintended time travel has caused. Kate’s hold on the present (whatever year she’s in) grows more and more tenuous as the multiplicity of...
by Barb Langridge | May 24, 2011 | Picture Book
Wendell was spending the weekend at Sophie’s house. Playing house, Wendell was the mother, the father, and the children; Sophie was the dog. Playing bakery, Wendell was the baker; Sophie got to be the sweet roll. Wendell shone his flashlight in Sophie’s...
