by Barb Langridge | Jan 7, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Kate Sibley’s larger-than-life neighbor, Berneetha, enlists her help in creating a community garden out of a vacant lot. Their new idea blooms and thrives until the lot’s owner wants to convert the land into a parking lot. Help arrives from some unexpected sources who...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 7, 2011 | Poetry
If you have ever wondered what night is like in the deep, dark forest — while much of the world is fast asleep — this is the book for you. Award-winning poet Joyce Sidman has teamed up with illustrator Rick Allen to create a lyrical and visual masterpiece....
by Barb Langridge | Jan 7, 2011 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
The first book in Jeff Smith’s New York Times bestselling, award-winning graphic novel series featuring an unlikely hero who must save an idyllic valley from the forces of evil. After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins — Fone Bone, Phoney...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 6, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Did you know that centipedes can remove their legs on purpose to defend themselves? Fascinating facts, such as this, and terrific close-up photos engage readers while introducing them to this multi-legged arthropod. Pages on habitat, life cycle and diet provide...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 6, 2011 | Fiction
When Mary Mouse gives birth to her thirteenth baby, she notices that he is much smaller than his siblings. The new mother decides that “he should have an important-sounding name to make up for his lack of size. On second thought, he should have two...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 6, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
When school begins at the end of August, the third graders in Mrs. Tovani’s class are excited: this is the year they are going to learn to write in cursive. Well, most of them are–Sean McFerrin thinks school is difficult enough without having to learn a...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 6, 2011 | Poetry
From the very first poem, readers are invited to “Dive In”to this slim volume of aquatic verse. Accompanying each rhyme is a short description of the marine creature highlighted in each piece. Leslie Evan’s clever block print illustrations float throughout the text....
by Barb Langridge | Jan 6, 2011 | Fantasy
Nalia is the princess of Thorvaldor–heir to the throne and the only daughter of the King and Queen. After her sixteenth birthday, Nalia’s world is torn apart. The only parents she’s ever known tell her that she is a false pretender to the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 6, 2011 | Picture Book
Some mommies sing you songs. Some mommies read you stories. All mommies want you to be who you are! With his trademark childlike art, Todd Parr celebrates all different kinds of mothers. Whether mommies work far away or at home, cook or order pizza, they are all lots...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 6, 2011 | Historical Fiction
In a diary that brings to life the dramatic happenings on the home front during World War II, Madeline Beck is living in a boardinghouse with her mother while her father is on an aircraft carrier guarding the Pacific Coast. After discovering that a German U-boat has...
