by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Florrie finds the adventure of a lifetime along the Santa Fe Trail, meeting new challenges and dangers, after her mother decides to move her family from Missouri to New Mexico. Starting their journey from their home in Missouri, Florrie Ryder and her family are headed...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Picture Book
In this retelling of a Mongolian folktale, a simple shepherd must pass three tests in order to marry the Khan’s beautiful daughter.–from the publisher 32 pages 9780590483896) Ages 7-10 Keywords: ...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Historical Fiction
1944. Wartime. A six-year-old boy goes to spend the summer with his grandmother Alida in a small town near the Canadian border. With the men all gone off to fight, the women are left to run the farms. There’s plenty for the boy to do—trying to help with the chores,...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Picture Book
Children’s Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman’s bestselling Sing-Along Stories are perfect for reading together, with over one million copies sold in all formats. You know the song, but you’ve never heard it like this! A familiar melody with...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Children will delight at this little-known-story about our nation’s first president, George Washington, that makes for perfect President’s Day readers! Boom! Bang! Guns fire! Cannons roar! This Step 3 History Reader is about George Washington fighting in...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Fiction
Hope Scroggins is a champion dreamer.She ought to be, considering that sleep is the only refuge she has from her wretched parents and the abandoned little sister she has been ordered to forget.In her dreams, Hope is desperately searching for a way to reunite with...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Mystery
Eleven year old Philippa Bath has an exciting and unconventional life, having grown up on the magnificent cruise ship S.S. Excalibur. When she finds a friend in the captain’s handsome son Philip, her life becomes infinitely more interesting as a mystery comes to the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Winner of the 1983 Newbery Medal When Momma abandoned Dicey Tillerman and her three siblings in a mall parking lot and was later traced to an asylum where she lay unrecognizing, unknowing, she left her four children no choice but to get on by themselves. They set off...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her twelfth birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have immigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 22, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Neglected by his parents, fourteen-year-old Terry Anders is used to taking care of things on his own. He even manages to assemble a car kit by himself. When the car is finished, Terry sets off from Cleveland to Portland in search of an uncle he barely remembers. Along...
