by Barb Langridge | Mar 10, 2011 | Picture Book
A humorous warning at the beginning of the book about the “author’s” (Huck Finn’s) peculiarities as a writer alerts readers to the fact that this is no ordinary biography. Written from the viewpoint of his most famous character, Twain’s life is compared to that of the...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 10, 2011 | Historical Fiction
In her 1906 journal, Prudence worries and dreams and sketches, wondering why doctors couldn’t save her brother’s life, why her father hasn’t returned from the Spanish-American War, how she can make a difference for those who suffer in her neighborhood. The etiquette...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 10, 2011 | Picture Book
This charming picture book introduces young listeners to Albert Einstein and basic scientific concepts about light and gravity. The text shows white lights, green lights, red lights, and rainbow lights, as well as examples of gravity that will be easy for children to...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 9, 2011 | Picture Book
The enticing smell of Grandmother’s tortillas is curling around the nose of Marta Enos as she sits at the end of the day finishing her homework on a Tohono O’odham reservation in southern Arizona. When she can’t take the delicious smell any longer,...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 9, 2011 | Picture Book
Winner of the 1958 Caldecott Medal A family has settled in to enjoy the summer on the islands off the coast of Maine and as they look out across the water they can watch time pass, seasons change, rain move in. In every moment of the day or of the season, if you take...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 9, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Sixteen year old Jessica was born to run. She loves it and she’s good at it. But her life takes an unexpected turn when she’s in an accident and she loses her leg. As we meet Jessica, she is having to face life without being able to walk to the bathroom...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 9, 2011 | Fantasy
Max, Natalia, Ernie, and Harley are a group of the bestest of best friends. Together they form their very own secret society, called the Order of the Grey Griffins. They meet every week to play a game called Roundtable, very similar to Dungeons and Dragons, but they...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 9, 2011 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
James Patterson’s popular YA series about genetically altered bird-children has been adapted to graphic novel format, giving wings to high-flying adventure as “The Flock” search for their parents and try to evade other malevolent mutants known as the...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 8, 2011 | Science Fiction
In this final book of the Ender quartet, Ender’s accidental “children”, young Val and Peter, are racing to help the people of Lusitania and Jane. Created from Ender’s fractured soul, or aiua, these young interpretations of his sister and brother are also struggling to...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 8, 2011 | Science Fiction
Continuing in a more philosophical vein, the third installment in the Ender Saga opens on the world of Path in the home of Han Fei-tzu as his beloved wife prepares the die. Path, it seems, is a world built on the ancient Chinese caste system, where peasants are ruled...
