by Barb Langridge | Apr 26, 2011 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
“Eleven-year-old Nate Wright is living OUT LOUD and he wouldn’t have it any other way! Even though his friends won’t let him be the lead singer in their band, Nate continues to rock. He’s a superstar of the comics pages and of the best-selling...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 26, 2011 | Non-Fiction
A fascinating trip into the mind of someone with autism, Dr. Temple Grandin. She describes how she thinks and how it effects job(s), workplace and daily life. The only downpoint I felt was chapter six about biochemistry (medications and treatment for Autism) where,...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 26, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
As she waits for her foster mom, Min keeps a toddler from running into traffic. Why can’t someone rescue Min from the endless round of foster homes, from not knowing why she was abandoned as a toddler, from not knowing her own birthday? And being returned to Miss...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 26, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Orphaned Blackfeet Indian siblings Lionel and Beatrice are on the run, forced to leave their oppressive boarding school behind after an unfortunate turn of events. With only a stolen horse and their very basic knowledge of survival skills, the children ride straight...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 25, 2011 | Fiction
The Kneebone Boy revolves around the events befalling of the three Hardscrabble children, Otto, Lucia and Max, each of whom is a little eccentric. Through a charming unidentified narrator, we learn of the children’s missing mother and oft-absent artist father. In need...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 25, 2011 | Picture Book
2008 American Indian Youth Literature Award winner for best Picture Book There is a river called Bok Chitto that cuts through Mississippi. In the days before the War Between the States, in the days before the Trail of Tears, Bok Chitto was a boundary. On one side of...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 25, 2011 | Fiction
After experiencing a traumatic event on the town reservoir involving a late night swimming session and a dead body of a classmate, Chloe finds herself dealing with intense feelings of shock and distress. Before the incident, Chloe lived with her distant alcoholic...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 24, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Born in Austria in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his first piece of music, a minuet, when he was just five years old! Soon after, he was performing for kings and emperors. Although he died at the young age of thirty-five, Mozart left a legacy of more than 600...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 24, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Here in lyrical prose is the story of the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the words that became the national anthem of the United States. This flag, which came to be known as the Star-Spangled Banner, also inspired author Susan Campbell Bartoletti, who,...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 24, 2011 | Fantasy
Before he knew about the Roses, 16-year-old Jack lived an unremarkable life in the small Ohio town of Trinity. Only the medicine he has to take daily and the thick scar above his heart set him apart from the other high-schoolers. Then one day Jack skips his medicine....
