by Barb Langridge | Mar 28, 2011 | Fiction
In this hamster adventure, classroom pet Humphrey finds himself trying to help his classmates: “Raise Your Hand, Heidi” needs some new strategies for remembering to raise her hand during class instead of calling out, two friends must face a misunderstanding when one...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 27, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
What will the Bell Gift be? Everyone in the British town is looking forward to something amazing, but Darius wonders whether his family has the money for anything at all. Every 25 years his family symbolically repays the town for their generations-ago gift of the Bell...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 27, 2011 | Fantasy
Three small children — brought to safety on a winter night as their parents fled for their lives – Kate remembers it dimly, but Michael and Emma were too young, so they think that horrible orphanages are the only reality. Ten years of being shuffled from place...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 27, 2011 | Paranormal
Daisy feels useless in her family – everyone but her has psychic powers. When her mother enlists her sister to help solve the mystery of who is attacking teenage girls all over town, Daisy feels even more left out. Once the attacks start affecting the girls on the...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 27, 2011 | Sports
Ben and his soccer team, the Bobcats, have made it to the semi-finals. Their first season is about to come to an end.Ben is one of the best players on his team, but that doesn’t keep him from becoming nervous.After all, the trophy is on the line! The teams are tough...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 27, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
In this early chapter book, Anna Hibiscus is a young girl who lives in “Amazing Africa”, with her family and her extended family. Her mom is from Canada and her dad is Native African. Her world is surrounded by cousins, aunties, uncles, grandparents and of course her...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 27, 2011 | Paranormal
Luce Price has been sent to the Sword & Cross boarding school after a horrific accident involving her last boyfriend.Even though she can’t stand the new school with its no-cell-phone rule, creepy buildings, freaky students and ever-present security cameras, she...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 26, 2011 | Science Fiction
Far north of Grassland, Pippa and her friends search for her home village, a place safe from the kidnapping and fighting life of the iron-masked Spears. The boys have been trained as warriors, but hope their skills are not needed on the journey. At last they find...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 26, 2011 | Picture Book
“Dream Big!, that’s my motto”, says Louise the Big Cheese Diva. Louise wanted so badly to play the starring role in the school play, Cinderella, but Fern, her best friend landed that part. Louise had to settle for being a mouse. Louise’s spunky personality doesn’t...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 26, 2011 | Paranormal
Something strange is happening in Nightshade. People are seeing double. Doppelgangers of the residents are popping up all over the town. When the Giordano girls get the news that their missing father has been spotted all over town, they decide to get to the bottom of...
