by Barb Langridge | Apr 28, 2011 | Science Fiction
Your regular beloved sixth grade teacher doesn’t show up after spring break. Instead, a handsome, strict and by the book substitute teacher is there in her place. You soon find out he’s an alien who is intending to kidnap 5 students from your class. Who is...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 28, 2011 | Science Fiction
How would you like to meet an alien? Better yet, how would you like an alien to be the new student in your sixth grade class? Would you be afraid or would you be over the top with excitement? Tim is more than excited! Meeting an alien is what he always dreamed of....
by Barb Langridge | Apr 28, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
From a review posted on a librarian’s listserv: Yesterday, someone posted an email about a collegue at their school who is just discovering the joy of reading YA but was wondering if there was any that wasn’t so depressing. Well, I just finished a book...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 28, 2011 | Picture Book
I just opened my mail and found this wonderful big board book! This is one of those big board books that is perfect for sharing in a lap with your very own baby. It celebrates all the kinds of babies from the fat ones to the thing ones and from the summer babies to...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 28, 2011 | Picture Book
Summer has finally arrived and Christy is trying to figure out what she wants to do with it. As she sits on her front porch making a plan, she notices her neighbor across the way, Eddie Lee. Eddie Lee has Down’s Syndrome and Christy thinks to herself how her...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 28, 2011 | Picture Book
Emma’s family celebrates Hanukkah and Christmas every year and this is a story about what it’s like to wake up on a winter day when the “world grew cold and afternoons became dark long before dinnertime.” This family lives in the city and they...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 27, 2011 | Picture Book
A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and names him Paddle-to-the-Sea. Paddle’s journey, in text and pictures, through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean provides an excellent geographic and historical picture of the region....
by Barb Langridge | Apr 26, 2011 | Fiction
How does it feel when the guy you love and the guy who makes you your very best self is killed in a car accident? How does it feel when your brother is the guy who is killed in the car accident? This is a story told in free verse in the two voices of Brooklyn and...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 26, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
“But as Alice stood there gazing down at her Aunt Polly, she got the strangest feeling inside. She couldn’t quite put her finger on it, but something was not right.” A few more things are going to feel not quite right as the next weeks pass and Alice...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 26, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
So, exactly how hard can it be to move up from the fifth grade to the sixth grade? And from your fifth grade self to your sixth grade self? Elise Bertrand is about to step into the first day of middle school and the first day of feeling as though she isn’t sure...
