by Barb Langridge | Jan 29, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Alone. Francis Tucket now feels more confident that he can handle almost anything. A year ago, on the wagon train, he was kidnapped from his family by a Pawnee hunting party. Then he escaped with the help of the mountain man, Mr. Grimes. Now that he and Mr. Grimes...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 29, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
It’s time for Halloween on Island Avenue, giving more excuses for the three Malloy sisters to compete against the four Hartford brothers for the best prank. Caroline, aged 8, plays a princess in the school play with her rival, Wally, aged 9. On top of that, the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 29, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Get ready! The Hartford boys and the Malloy girls are at it again. One group will surely come out to be the best. Or will they?Love is in the air around Valentine’s Day, and Cupid has struck both Beth Malloy and Josh Hartford. As an ultimate no-no, they try to...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Bullet Tillerman runs. He runs to escape the criticism of his harsh, unforgiving father. He runs to numb the pain of his mother’s inability to express her love. He is the star of the school track team, but he isn’t a team man and doesn’t want to be. Bullet runs for...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Winner of the 1998 Newbery Medal “Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . .” A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo’s life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can’t talk about it. And the one thing that...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as “dumb Okies,” the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2011 | Historical Fiction
In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.—from the publisher ********* Beginning in broken English, Nannie tells of her...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Twelve-year-old Casey is waiting for the day that Barney, her father, hits it big — ’cause when that horse comes in, he tells her, it’s the penthouse suite. But then he ends up in the hospital, and Casey is sent to Chinatown to live with her...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2011 | Short Stories
This collection of poems, stories and one short play includes works by Tibetan Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Korean Americans, Japanese Americans and Thai Americans–known and unknown, young and old–who write about growing up, fitting in, and relating to...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 28, 2011 | Picture Book
Illustrated by the beloved creator of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, The Little House, and Katy and the Big Snow, here is a delightful version of the tale that boys and girls have loved for centuries. The Emperor himself, his court, and his clothes—or lack of...
