by Barb Langridge | Apr 16, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Originating in the southern town of Pulaski, Tennessee, founded by six former confederate soldiers worried about the safety of their women and families, a terrorist band was formed on a May evening in 1866. Patterned after the Kuklos Adelphon fraternity, rules were...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 16, 2011 | Picture Book
Laura finds many reasons why she cannot attend her piano lesson.—from the publisher ********* Read first for the fun of the story and then go back and search for the treasure in the details once you know the “secret.” 32 pages ...
by Mike Costanzo | Apr 16, 2011 | Picture Book
At the beginning of the story, a minnow and a tadpole are happy, swimming friends. Gradually, the tadpole changes into a full grown frog and hops out of the pond. Off he goes into the great big world and when he returns he has grand stories to tell of all he has seen...
by Mike Costanzo | Apr 16, 2011 | Picture Book
Every time I read a Leo Lionni book I am always so impressed with his deep respect for children. This is the story of three frogs, one of whom Jessica, loves to explore her world looking for objects of wonder. One day she finds ‘a huge pebble’ which turns...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 16, 2011 | Science Fiction
Conor Broekhart was born to fly. In fact, legend has it that he was born flying in a hot air balloon at the world’s fair. In the 1890’s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 15, 2011 | Fiction
Snake and Lizard are two close ‘friends’ with very different ways of dealing with daily situations. Their first meeting is rather antagonistic. One would refer to their relationship as ‘oil and water’. Snake has stretched herself across a path that she ‘knows’ will...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 15, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Once upon a time begins many a fairy tale and this is the fairy tale in the mind of a young Polish boy who happens to be Jewish and who is living in an orphanage in 1942. Once upon a time Felix had a happy home with his parents who sold books in their bookshop. Now...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 15, 2011 | Historical Fiction
“How much do we know about those around us?” is the question posed by author Thanhha Lai in her Author’s Note at the end of this poignant journey of a family from Saigon who flees South Vietnam as the war ends and escapes to a new life, a new world...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 15, 2011 | Humor
Kitty’s owners are taking a week off and leaving Kitty and Puppy at home. So who’s going to watch them? Good ol’ Uncle Murray, star of the Fun Facts feature of previous Kitty books―the guy you thought knew everything about cats. Think again! It...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 14, 2011 | Action / Adventure
The Hall family lives an seemingly enchanted life as they encounter one adventure after another flying with geese and stumbling upon a diamond. In this, the sixth book in the Hall Family Adventures, Eddy, receives a gift in the mail from is uncle in India. At first it...
