by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Violet has just turned fifteen. Among Latin Americans, this birthday is a milestone, and is marked by the quinceanera, a huge celebration — complete with the guest of honor decked out in a frilly dress. Violet’s Cuban grandmother is enthusiastically...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children’s Book In this brilliant fictional tour de force, which the New York Times called “a deft, poignant novel,” Newbery Medal-winning...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 19, 2011 | Fantasy
Calder has been escorting souls into the afterlife for over three hundred years since his death at age 19. He has been a guide, a Fetch, at peace with role until he arrives at a death scene and sees a beautiful woman taking care of a dying child. Calder becomes...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 19, 2011 | Humor
Nigel isn’t your typical teenager. Transformed by a vampire couple who wanted to have children, he has been 15 years-old for over 100 years. Written as a diary, Notes from a Totally Lame Vampire is Nigel’s chronicle of his attempts to gain the attention of a new girl...
by Mike Costanzo | Jan 18, 2011 | Picture Book
If you sing the Wheels on the Bus in your head sometimes because you’ve heard it so often, then you may have a young listener in your family who likes things that go. This is a pop-up book done to the tune of the Wheels on the Bus but it’s all about a...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 18, 2011 | Historical Fiction
History comes alive in the voice of Eliza, a slave in Alexandria, Virginia in 1854. Eliza’s mother, Jane Mae, a master storyteller, has been sold away by Sir leaving Eliza under the protective wing of Abbey, mistress’s cook. Eliza is left to serve the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 18, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Antarctica is a land of frozen secrets, with scarcely a handful that have been completely divulged. Join Sally M. Walker as she explores both historical and modern-day scientific expeditions to the continent and examines what secrets might still be locked in the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 18, 2011 | Humor
Michael K. is starting fifth grade at his new school P.S. 858 in Brooklyn, New York and expecting the worst. But, there is no way he could have imagined just how bad things were going to turn out. Sitting in the back with the other two new kids, Michael cringes as...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 17, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Anybody out there who hasn’t heard of Benedict Arnold? The traitor to our country? We all know the story of the treason but does anyone know about his father? About the disgrace? About how he lost his family to yellow fever? This is a fiery figure who never toed...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 17, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Zander Scott and three of his friends have just been appointed Peacekeepers for the eighth graders at Da Vinci …a school in Harlem for the gifted and talented. Now Zander’s life isn’t all that easy right now. His grades are slipping and this may be...
