by Barb Langridge | Apr 10, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
DJ Schwenk, girl football player extraordinaire, is back in action in the snappy second book of the Dairy Queen series. As her junior year of high school starts up, DJ is on top of the world: praised for her athletic performance, loving her work on the family dairy...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 10, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Finally, after a whirlwind fall filled with the heartache of her first breakup and the challenges of caring for her paralyzed football star brother, DJ Schwenk is back at school and looking forward to blending into the background. Despite her gifted athleticism, DJ...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 10, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Suds has started the fourth grade and it’s proving to be a pretty tough year. At his school each grade has a nickname. When he was a third grader, he was an angel and that Suds was good at but this year, fourth grade, he has to be a rat. What does a rat do? How...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 10, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
A hardworking teenage girl, DJ Schwenk takes on more than her fair share of responsibility when she takes over her family dairy farm as her father recovers from hip surgery and her eldest brothers leave for college. DJ, tall and mature, never complains about the...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 9, 2011 | Fantasy
“The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life....
by Barb Langridge | Apr 9, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Emma has always wanted a little brother. Now her family is adopting Max, and Emma is sure he will be the best brother ever. But Max has his own ideas. He thinks sisters are yucky, and that Emma is the yuckiest! Is this really what having a brother is all about? In...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 9, 2011 | Non-Fiction
With simple language and bright illustrations, non-fiction master Gail Gibbons introduces young readers to the processes of pollination, seed formation, and germination. Important vocabulary is reinforced with accessible explanation and colorful, clear diagrams...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 9, 2011 | Picture Book
Leave time for wonder. Walt Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” is an enduring celebration of the imagination. Here, Whitman’s wise words are beautifully recast by New York Times #1 best-selling illustrator Loren Long to tell...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 9, 2011 | Fantasy
Author LaFever scores another hit with this, the fourth book in the Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist series. The story of 10-year old Nathaniel, as he attempts to master the family profession of beastologist and unlock the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of his...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 9, 2011 | Westerns
Three years after the 1893 Panic (recession), times were still tough for the mercantile business in St. Louis, Missouri. Fourteen-year-old Caleb Hart, being another mouth to feed and having few prospects, was shipped out to his uncle’s cattle ranch in Las Cruce,...
