by Barb Langridge | Mar 6, 2011 | Fiction
It is summer and fun awaits cousins Henry and Annie. But Annie wants to join the summer Book Bugs Club at the library while Henry wants to be outside! Finally Henry agrees to join the club since Annie always does what he wants. Henry discovers you can read anywhere...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 6, 2011 | Picture Book
Imagine what a passel of piggies would do to the kitchen when Mama goes out shopping on her birthday and Daddy is out mowing the lawn! The piggies are cooking up a birthday surprise when they are repeatedly interrupted and then panic thinking Mama is home early. How...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 6, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Betsy Dowdy was a brave girl who made a midnight ride to alert American army of impending British attack during the American Revolution. This is only a legend not supported by facts, but is a wonderful example of the support of all citizens at this time of American...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 6, 2011 | Fantasy
Cinderella discovers that ninja training enhances the concentration and strength needed to improve her magical abilities in this “choose-your-path” version of the classic tale. Her evil stepmother is a strong wizard, nearly as strong as Cinderella’s late father and...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 5, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Put on your blue suede shoes and get ready for another addition to the Who Was…? series! The King could not have come from humbler origins: Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, during the Depression, he grew up with the blues music of the rural South, the gospel music of...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 5, 2011 | Picture Book
Yikes! Eddie’s in for the surprise of his life when he discovers that his teddy bear has grown much too big to cuddle! But there’s fun in store when Eddie meets up with a real bear who’s got just the opposite problem—his lost teddy bear has shrunk to...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 5, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
During the summer before 8th grade, Tracy starts having flashbacks to her childhood in Vietnam. Her adoptive parents have pictures of her arrival in the USA as a tiny 6 year old in 1975, but before that time, she has only an empty place inside her memories. As she and...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 5, 2011 | Historical Fiction
In 1936, Michael Roth and his family are escaping the Nazi government to start a better life in America.Michael is more excited about riding aboard the huge airship, the Hindenburg, than the destination.Michael must solve a mystery when he suspects another passenger...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 5, 2011 | Historical Fiction
For those interested in apocalyptic/disaster fiction and/or survival stories, readers should enjoy this historical adventure novel. It’s Idaho, 1910. One of the worst forest fires in America’s history known as “The Big Burn” is vividly...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 4, 2011 | Picture Book
Raymond loves his comic books and he gets so deeply into them when he’s reading that he doesn’t even hear his mother calling him. But his mother’s voice does find a way to reach him and reluctantly he has to set his book down. This time as he’s...
