by Barb Langridge | May 12, 2011 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
The future sees unified thought as productive, original opinion as unpatriotic, books as divisive. The firemen burn hoarded books to keep useless emotions and original thinking from hurting society in this time of war. Guy Montag has been a fireman for ten years. As...
by Barb Langridge | May 12, 2011 | Mystery
Meg is frantic when her big brother Orion disappears from their family’s London printshop. Has he been captured by a press-gang to work on the new railway or sail away on a trading ship? Six months gone, with no word at all! And he’d taken the last section...
by Barb Langridge | May 12, 2011 | Paranormal
Hired as a nursemaid for a little boy, Tabitha wonders what happened to the other girl from her orphanage who held the position before her. Seldom House is a huge, gloomy place on the English moorlands, with no windows facing south and a bleak inner courtyard where...
by Barb Langridge | May 12, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a...
by Barb Langridge | May 12, 2011 | Sports
Nick Abbott and Trent Dawson have nothing in common but basketball. Or so it seems. But as the basketball season progresses, their lives become unexpectedly intertwined. In this story of an unlikely bond, award-winning author Carl Deuker explores that dark and...
by Barb Langridge | May 11, 2011 | Historical Fiction
“You are somebody.” Those are the words Martin Luther King Jr. Said to the Benders, the “poor dirt farmers, desscendants of slaves, ” who heard him speak at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church back in 1965 in the state of Alabama. It was a night...
by Barb Langridge | May 11, 2011 | Picture Book
Auntie and Uncle and Nannie and Gran-Gran and all the cousins want to hug and kiss the new baby—they all love the baby SO MUCH! Illustrations by Helen Oxenbury brim with the warmth of a large, loving extended family. Mom and baby are home alone when—DING DONG!—Auntie...
by Barb Langridge | May 11, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Mac Slater hunts the cool; he’s a coolhunter. He even has the blog to prove it. We first met Mac in Mac Slater Hunts the Cool. Mac and his best friend Paul were recruited from their sleepy hometown of Kings Bay, Australia, to be coolhunters—“teens and...
by Barb Langridge | May 10, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Why go all the way to Sparrow Road just for Mama to cook for artists and writers this summer, Raine wonders. She’d rather stay with Grandpa Mac at his store in the city, in the apartment that they all share, with her 6th grade friends. And when odd Viktor tells her...
by Barb Langridge | May 10, 2011 | Non-Fiction
“Linking to a popular feature in the super successful National Geographic Little Kids magazine, this book brings the browsable fun of the bestselling National Geographic Kids Almanac to a new audience: preschoolers! Using an interactive question-and-answer...
