by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Seventeen year-old Luke escapes his alcoholic father to live in a trailer in Arizona. Nineteen year-old Ava feels abandoned by her parents and escapes her isolation by drinking. Luke and Ava cross paths when Ava attends AA meetings and befriends Luke’s father, Frank....
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Fantasy
New territory brings new troubles for the fierce cats of the warrior Clans, who are still uncovering the secrets of their new home around the lake. Dangers they have never faced before are lurking in the twilight shadows, and former allies are acting strangely...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
Sophie is an artist who wants to spin beautiful creations all day long and, someday, a masterpiece. As a spider, though, Sophie has a hard time finding a welcoming place in which she can be free to live and spin. She’s shooed and shuffled all over...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
Mercer Mayer’s Little Critter is—hesitantly—spending the day with his little sister in this classic, funny, and heartwarming book. Whether he’s teaching her how to skateboard, how to fish, or how to make and fly a paper airplane, both parents and children alike will...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Action / Adventure
As Kelsa is burying Dad’s ashes in the scrap of forest left near the city, a young man with no ID chip approaches her, wondering why she doesn’t believe in magic. Ha! Her father just died of cancer, that curable everyday problem, worrying about the bioplague dropped...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Science Fiction
Sam is a teenage hacker extraordinaire. He single-handedly brought the Internet to its knees hacking into a large telecom company. He can and does hack anything– even the White House. His skills attract the attention of a secret agency inside the department of...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Paranormal
Masterful storytelling. Darkness Becomes Her is set in sinister and creepy moss-covered and overgrown New Orleans, now named New 2, after a series of wrenching hurricanes destroyed it. Nine families whose ancestors first settled New Orleans band together and form the...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Levi’s older brother Boaz shocked his family 3 years ago by foregoingcollege and enlisting in the Marine Corps. Now Boaz has come back from thewar. But his return does not bring the normalcy and peace that Levi and hisparents expected. Boaz stays locked in his room,...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
Charming adventure for Little Pip as he awaits the arrival of his new sibling, However he does not understand why his family needs another penguin. The story is really an accurate account of the birthing process for penguins, but the author and illustrator have made...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Non-Fiction
THE BODY BOOK FOR BOYSJonathan Mar and Grace NorwichNo one identified2010Non-fiction (very child friendly)No indication in this volume. However I would imagine the same treatment for girls can not be too far behind.Very good for reluctant and all other...
