by Barb Langridge | Apr 22, 2011 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
Lizzie is sure this summer will be awful – the Canadian gold rush country, all lakes and wilderness, was the kids’ special place with their grandmother, so why did Mom suddenly want to leave her law office and bring their new stepdad here for the summer? Gran’s...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 22, 2011 | Picture Book
Winner of a Caldecott Honor A shy Japanese boy having difficulty adjusting to school is misjudged by his classmates. Chibi has been an outcast since that frightening first day of school when he hid under the schoolhouse. Afraid of the teacher and unable to make any...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 22, 2011 | Picture Book
In this reinvention of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, images by Caldecott medalist Ed Young and new text by Eleanor Coerr come together to inspire children of all ages. In her novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr told the moving story of...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 22, 2011 | Picture Book
From Kate and Jim McMullan, the popular creators of I Stink! and I’m Dirty!—now a streaming animated series—comes a hilarious new picture book about one BAD dino who has just one thing on his mind: dinner. Who’s big? Who’s bad? And who’s hungry? T-Rex, that’s...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 22, 2011 | Picture Book
What simpler way could there be to express to children the beauty and the harmony in the world around them than through the lyrics of this song by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele, made famous by the great Louis Armstrong? And what better visual accompaniment than...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2011 | Action / Adventure
When a robber kidnaps his cousin from the family store, Sam chases after them. How can little Nissa survive the approaching hurricane? The robber forces 14 year old Sam into the pickup truck too, and drives away from town toward the Outback, ignoring the warning signs...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2011 | Mystery
1. I’It’s summer, 1926, and thirteen-year-old Scooter King is torn. His mother, Madam King, is a medium. She holds séances and, with Scooter’s help, convinces gullible people that she can communicate with the dead. But Scooter’s hero, the...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
AIDS took her mother, leaving 13 year-old Emmy alone and HIV-positive. Well, her father and stepmother wanted her, but did she really want to live with them? Especially with a new baby on the way? After Mom’s funeral, being at junior high with Nicole was mostly the...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2011 | Short Stories
Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2011 | Fiction
When Ben’s girlfriend, Marly, dies, he feels his life is over. What could possibly matter now when Marly is gone? So when Valentine’s Day approaches, it makes sense that this day that was once so meaningful to Ben leaves him feeling bitter and hollow. But...
