by Barb Langridge | Apr 13, 2011 | Picture Book
The mother and son author team of Toni and Slade Morrison provides a twist to the classic fable. The characters are the same: the speedy rabbit and the slow tortoise. However, a new back story to the race is provided. Jimi the rabbit is so fast that he has no friends;...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 12, 2011 | Fantasy
Slice of Cherry is set in a Portero, Texas known for supernatural activity. The town’s residents all wear black to avoid drawing the attention from the surrounding monster community. Residents are known to open doors to other realities. The Mortmaine, clad all in...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 12, 2011 | Picture Book
Arriving at an old Japanese temple, the bobtailed cat raises his paw in greeting. The monk brings him in from the snowstorm and calls him a lucky cat. So Tama strives to make life better for the monk in this beautiful retelling of the lucky cat legend. But with no...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 12, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Your hobby or favorite activity could be a great way to make money, so use this business guide for teens to get started! Successful entrepreneurs (people who start their own business and work for themselves) work hard, communicate well, can multitask, are organized,...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 12, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Author Allison Whittenberg pitches two African American teens from very different backgrounds into a series of life-changing episodes beginning when Hakiam reluctantly forces himself to sign up for a tutor so he can earn his GED. His past is unsavory; turned out by...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 12, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Anna Hibiscus is back! Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa! However, she can’t wait to leave the dusty, hot sands of Africa for the cold, snowy lands of Canada where she will visit her grandmother and experience snow for the very first time. As she prepares...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 12, 2011 | Fantasy
With a serious fever striking children across the country, the four Morgan children, Meg, Rowan, Silly, and young James, are sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives they have never met. They acquire two additions to the party, Dickie Rhys, who is...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 12, 2011 | Non-Fiction
For a long time, the main role of First Ladies was to act as hostesses of the White House…until Eleanor Roosevelt. Born in 1884, Eleanor was not satisfied to just be a glorified hostess for her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Eleanor had a voice,...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 12, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
When high school senior Mandarin walks into a room, people drop what they are doing to watch and whisper. Even though the attention she gets is not usually positive, fourteen-year-old Grace Carpenter can’t help but be mesmerized by Mandarin, who works in her father’s...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 12, 2011 | Fiction
“Cork was a short muskrat. He like to help. He like to help baby birds…Fuzz was a tall possum. He liked to help, too. He like to help himself to worms for breakfast…Two best friends, One was helpful. The other was Fuzz.”This introduction sets...
