by Barb Langridge | Feb 24, 2011 | Action / Adventure
Agent Six of Hearts is a teenage spy for The Deck, a top-secret agency that is charged with upholding justice in the corrupt world they live in. The reason Six is the strongest, fastest and most capable agent in The Deck is a secret – because he is the product of an...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 24, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
It’s 1963 and eleven-year-old Ellie is surrounded by change, battles and a whole raft of issues that lead to growing up fast. For starters Ellie’s mother has renamed herself Doris Day Dingman and is hoping to win the local beauty contest. It’s her...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 24, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Why do our girls have good self-esteem in elementary school and then start a slow slide down the scale into middle school and high school? Is it the messages they receive from the culture around them or is it the messages they are giving to themselves? Maybe...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 24, 2011 | Fantasy
Nick and Alan have been on the run from the magicians with their mom as long as Nick can remember. Nick is the one who lives for the fight, and Alan is the caregiver. Olivia, the mom, seems to be depressed and cannot stand the sight of Nick. Though she was once held...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 24, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
In this warm and wonderful second book of the Tía Lola Stories, Tía Lola proves yet again that she is a force to be reckoned with. The first of her tales, How Tía Lola Came to Stay, shows her journey from the Dominican Republic to help raise her newly divorced niece’s...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 24, 2011 | Non-Fiction
From the acclaimed author of The Great and Only Barnum—as well as The Lincolns, Our Eleanor, and Ben Franklin’s Almanac—comes the thrilling story of America’s most celebrated flyer, Amelia Earhart. In alternating chapters, Fleming deftly moves readers back...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 24, 2011 | Fantasy
Fireheart’s traitorous enemy Tigerclaw has been vanquished and exiled from ThunderClan—but Fireheart can’t shake the feeling that he’s lurking out there in the forest, waiting for the chance to strike. That’s not the only problem facing the...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 24, 2011 | Action / Adventure
Danny Dragonbreath knows girls are nothing but trouble. And the new foreign exchange student, Suki the Salamander, is the worst: she’s reduced his best friend, Wendell, to a blithering, lovesick tadpole. But when a group of ninja frogs attempt to kidnap her,...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 24, 2011 | Picture Book
There’s a special magic to being one of the stars up on the silver screen and today it seems everyone wants the fame and attention that come with that celebrity. But one of the biggest stars of our time was Audrey Hepburn, a woman who chose to be true to her...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 23, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, this sweetheart of a book will have girls clamoring for a copy. When Quigley and her best friend Anne are fired from a frozen pizza packing plant, they are worried about making enough money to buy their prom dresses. Anne, the...
