by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Humor
This is a wonderfful Early Step Into Reading book about a warmly dressed little girl who is standing out in a snowy wonderland of great sledding hills. She sees a precariously balanced snowball and watches as it plummets from its perch and starts racing down the hill....
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Passionate, powerful, and poignant, this novel will cause a cacophony in libraries, book stores, blogs, and hopefully, even forward-thinking classrooms. Myracle leaves her girl/chick-lit earlier novels behind her, and steps to the center stage with this complex and...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Fiction
Meet “Only.” Only is going to invite you to write your own name in his book and then off you go on an adventure through a mystery filled with metaphors. Your job is to figure out who “Only” could be. You get some clues along the way. “I...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Fantasy
Who is the only author who has a town or community named after one of his fictional characters? The answer is Tarzana, California. It was the home of American author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan. However, next to Tarzan, John Carter, the sci fi,...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Where is Kosovo, who are the Serbians and Albanians, and why are they fighting? This story personalizes the events that tore Kosovo apart, pitting neighbor against neighbor, Christian against Muslim. This is the story of 11-year-old Meli and her family and their...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Picture Book
Once, an Ojibwa man whose wife had died raised three daughters alone. The two older girls were lazy and bad-tempered, and made their youngest sister do all the work. When the flames from the cooking fire singed her hair or burned her skin, they laughed and called her...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Picture Book
With child-like smiling stick figures, bold, brilliant colour and upbeat text, picture-book creator Todd Parr celebrates the diverse, wonderful world of grandmothers in The Grandma Book. Parr focuses on the differences between individual grandparents (Some grandmas...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Fiction
Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father’s role in an...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Humor
“The sixth sick sheep is the sheik’s sixth sheep.” How many times can you say that fast? Three times? Twice? Not even once? Here are over a hundred tongue twisters for you to try.—from the publisher 64 pages ...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Historical Fiction
In the journal she receives for her twelfth birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes the hardships her family and other residents of the “Texas colonies” endure when they decide to face the Mexicans in a fight for their freedom.—from the...
