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...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 22, 2011 | Picture Book
Mother Goose’s sister, Spinster Goose has a school specially designed for naughty children. Among other reform school students Little Miss Muffet eats chalk, Georgie Porgie is the class bully, and Lucy Locket loses more than just her pocket. And everyone knows an...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 21, 2011 | Picture Book
A wonderful, happy little bear cub trails his mother through the forest, up hill and down and copies everything she does. She nicknames her little one, Copycub. They “lollop through the trees” and they wade in the streams. Whatever Mama does her little cub...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 21, 2011 | Picture Book
One day an egg rolls out of its nest and rolls its way into the nest of a Mother Duck who is reading a book and not noticing things. Eventually, the egg hatches and though it is a very different sort of duck, it is accepted and raised as a special member of the...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 20, 2011 | Picture Book
The irrepressible Olivia the pig is back with her family on vacation in Venice. Overcome by the magnificence of Venice, Olivia must find the perfect souvenir by which to remember her visit.Fun truly is the word needed to describe Falconer’s latest adventure for his...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 20, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Kylie Jean is an inquisitive eight-year-old Texan who has her sights set on being a beauty queen. When the rodeo comes to town, Kylie Jean decides she wants to become the next Rodeo Queen. In order to become the Rodeo Queen, Kylie Jean discovers that she must learn to...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 20, 2011 | Picture Book
Imagine yourself in Charleston, South Caroline, as the Civil War is breaking out around you and you are standing on the deck of a steamer filled with four cannon headed to Confederate forts. You are a slave who has grown up on the docks and around the shipping world...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 20, 2011 | Picture Book
In 49 words Shane Evans takes us deep into the Underground Railroad to experience the darkness, the fear, the hopes and the sorrows. His haunting illustrations are dark blue with occasional glimpses of light as those on the Underground Railroad must have experienced...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 20, 2011 | Picture Book
An African American grandfather and his grandson are sharing time together. Written in a poetic verse style the words of the grandfather ring out. “These hands could tie a triple bowline knot in three seconds flat; could throw a curve ball; could do a waterfall...
