by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2011 | Picture Book
Chick is a little chicken with a big thirst for adventure. After having read “The Adventures of Wonder Pug” 127 times, Chick goes in search of a pug of his own. Let the adventures begin. Chick soon finds a “real, live Wonder Pug.” Imagine the...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2011 | Picture Book
If you’re looking for a book on shapes, particularly, circles and dots, here’s your winner. Dots in bold colors of all sizes and shapes dance across the pages. They may be floating as balloons or turning as wheels. Some dots are being kicked and some dots...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2011 | Picture Book
Ah the power of a well-written letter. Alex, the oldest son, has been kicked out of his own room by the birth of his new little sister, Baby Annie and Alex cannot take another minute of sharing his room or his stuff with his little brother, Ethan. Would you want to...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2011 | Fantasy
Have you ever been bullied before? How would you like to have a magical ring that can turn you into the most horrific looking monster that could scare even the meanest bully away? Sound too good to be true? It is! The directions given to Russell by Mr. Elives, the...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2011 | Picture Book
Shakespeare was never so easy to read as it is in this book. Bruce and the illustrator Tim Raglin did a great job retelling and illustrating this comical story. A young man and woman who are twins become shipwrecked. The man is not to be found but the woman whose name...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Foster loves to cook more than anything – so much better than school, where she barely passed sixth grade because of reading class. She’d really like to read her daddy’s letters, the ones he sent from Army posts overseas before he died, but her brain just can’t do it,...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Life as Fadi knows it ends the night he and his family make their narrow escape from Afghanistan’s oppressive Taliban rule; it is the same night that his six-year-old sister Mariam becomes lost and left behind in the increasingly unstable Middle East. Fadi and his...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Respected journalists Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster partner up to introduce young people to the past in this first volume of the new Century for Young People series.Covering the years 1901 to 1936, it proves to be a well-written and informative look at the events...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2011 | Science Fiction
Time has passed for Ender. In the years that have followed, the name Ender Wiggin has been vilified and denounced. He has been called a mass murderer and much worse. His book, The Hive Queen and the Hegemon, has sparked a new religion and a whole crop of individuals...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2011 | Humor
Bad Kitty and Poor Puppy are back in their first chapter book guaranteed to have you in rolling on the floor in laughter. If you loved Nick Bruel’s picture books, you will certainly want to read Bad Kitty’s first chapter book! Cats really hate baths, but sometimes...
