by Barb Langridge | Nov 29, 2010 | Mystery
Three mysterious cases are facing the dynamic duo of detectives, Inspector Hopper and McBugg. FIrst they receive a frantic call from Mr. Ladybug who called Ladybug, Ladybug, fly away home but Mrs. Ladybug did not fly home. She left behind a mysterious blue pool on the...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 29, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Roya has grown up in an intellectually stimulating household; her father is a distinguished poet. Life is good for the Hakakians in 1979,when the Shah is deposed and the fundamentalist Ayatollah Khomeini assumes control of Iran. The idealistic 12-year-old joins those...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 29, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The world already knows what it should be, it just doesn’t always act on that knowledge. Sometimes it just needs a jumpstart. 15-year-old Elle has been dumped in an apartment across the city from her home; she is an inconvenience to her mother and Donald, her...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 29, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
For fifth grader Jill Brenner, fitting in has never been a problem. She’s not the most popular kid in her class, but she also has plenty of friends; unlike Linda Fischer. Nobody hangs around with Linda, partly because she has a weight problem. When Linda chooses...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 29, 2010 | Picture Book
This bright red, big-toothed dinosaur is having quite the day! With a ROAR he charges off to make lemonade, to run through the sprinkler, and then on to a “three juice box lunch.” ROAR! And through it all he doesn’t need to use the potty. Now...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 29, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Ellie and her mom refer to themselves as “tweeners” at the homeless shelter. They are between homes. Her dad died while rescuing people during a hurricane that left Ellie and her mom without a place to live. Their status as “tweeners” is about to change. They have the...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 29, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Before reading this YA book, the only historical novel I could recall that was about the Confederacy’s notorious prisoner of war camp, Andersonville, was MacKinlay Kantor’s 1955 Pulitzer Prize classic, Andersonville. Jake Clay, an eighteen-year-old New...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 29, 2010 | Mystery
Noh is a short name for a girl named Noleen-Anne Harris Morgan Maypother. Her mother died right after she was born and her father takes long trips away from home chasing bugs for a living. When Noh is sent to stay with her Aunt Sarah who teaches English literature at...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 29, 2010 | Sports
Tiki and Ronde Barber have waited their entire life for their team to win the state football championship. It’s their last year at Hidden Valley Junior High School and their last chance to show that their team is the best. But one little problem has crept in....
by Barb Langridge | Nov 29, 2010 | Picture Book
Blossom and Rocky are a pair of sneaky sheep who want to get out of their meadow and explore the world. But each time they try to escape and head up on to the mountain nearby, Murphy, the sheepdog who guards them, appears and makes them go back home where it’s...
