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...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 12, 2011 | Fantasy
Only one semester into the Iron Bridge Academy and the Grey Griffins have found themselves in another pickle. While zombies roam streets and their community continues to reel from the Clockwork King’s devastation, the young heroes we have learned to love have...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2011 | Westerns
“…Da tore the book from Mick’s hands. Using the tail of his shirt, he yanked open the stove door and pitched the book in. It settled into the flames with a floosh.” As librarians and educators, did that get your attention? Here is an...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2011 | Picture Book
Not good for reluctant readers. Language especially the Iranian names would be too strange for young readers.Iranian folk talesEarly mature reader. Too young would not be able to understand stories. Themes are not easily grasped by the young.These tales include lynxes...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2011 | Westerns
In this gun cracking, galloping “quest” or “road” western set around Arizona in 1888, seventeen-year -old Easterner and “greenhorn” Elizabeth DuBonnet journeys West in search of her mother and sister. To protect herself while...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Award-winning author Kathleen Krull zeros in on the formative first 22 years of the life of Ted Geisel. This is the first picture book biography of Dr. Seuss, written especially for his young fans who want to know what made him tick. The animals in the zoo that his...
