by Barb Langridge | Feb 23, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Ben Franklin was the scientist who, with the help of a kite, discovered that lightning is electricity. He was also a statesman, an inventor, a printer, and an author-a man of such amazingly varied talents that some people claimed he had magical powers! Full of all the...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 23, 2011 | Fantasy
Soon after the cats reached their new home by the lake, ThunderClan’s medicine cat Leafpool received an ominous warning from StarClan: Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red. As the Clan slowly recovers from a devastating badger...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 23, 2011 | Fiction
This is an over-the-top adventure for two kids, Jake and Sammie (a female school mate), who take on the evil J. P. Rumblegut, a corporate megalomaniac intent on controlling the world through mind-numbing corndogs. Are you ready for an immature romp through flatulence...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 23, 2011 | Picture Book
Emily Gravett has written and illustrated a picture book based on a problem originally proposed and solved in a book from the 13th century, Liber Abaci.Gravett “illustrates” a mathematical concept known as the Fibonacci sequence. The original problem from Liber Abaci...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 22, 2011 | Fantasy
Max, Natalia, Ernie, and Harley were just a normal group of middle school kids a year ago, that is until they learned that ghost stories weren’t just tall tales. There really are “things that go bump in the night”! Even more, together they find that they are the...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 22, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
f’; font-size: 10pt;”>Teenage Waistland centers on 4 morbidly obese teens who are in a clinical trial for Lap-Band use by teenagers: * Marcie – a girl who feels out-of-place with her new stepfamily and is being taken away from her old home and...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 22, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Kevin is the son of a fallen cop who lives with his mother and abuela. He is arrested for auto theft and kidnapping but won’t tell anyone the whole story of what really happened that night. The judge in the case feels like he might deserve a second chance...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 22, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Thirteen-year-old Lamar Washington is the maddest, baddest, most spectacular bowler at Striker’s Bowling Paradise. But while Lamar’s a whiz at rolling strikes, he always strikes out with girls. And his brother, Xavier the Basketball Savior, is no help....
by Barb Langridge | Feb 22, 2011 | Paranormal
Jacinda is a draki – descended from dragons and able to shift between human and a dragon-like appearance.She and her family live in secret with the pride that has her future already planned out.She is special – the first fire-breather in recent history...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 22, 2011 | Paranormal
After the explosive demonstration of Sonny’s power at the end of Darklight and the vision she keeps having of him being killed for it, Kelley makes a hard decision. In order to protect him from his one weakness – her – she lets Sonny overhear her saying that she...
