by Barb Langridge | Nov 28, 2010 | Sports
Amy loves running, and she’s one of the best runners in town. Now she’s trying to come back from a bad knee injury that caused her to miss most of the track season. Can she make it back in time for the big meet? Even if she does, how can she possibly hope...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 28, 2010 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Telemachus has been waiting for 17 years for his father Odysseus to return from the Trojan War. Now a young man, he chafes in vain at the small army of men living off his father’s estate while they try to win his mother’s hand in marriage. Knowing nothing...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 27, 2010 | Picture Book
Where is Grandpa? This question haunts a young boy on the day his grandpa dies. Grandpa has been so richly present in so many places–at the tree house, at the waterfall, at the door ready to carve pumpkins. But where is he now? As the boy searches for an answer,...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 27, 2010 | Science Fiction
Stolen as children from their villages, young Diggers slave to find ‘shards’ in the sands for the Spears who guard them, men in metal helmet-masks who let the sea tides capture the weak or the slow. The Grassland is scoured nightly by the cold fury of the sea while...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 27, 2010 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Brothers and their little sisters can have a hard time getting along sometimes even if they are mice. Meet Benny and his little sister, Penny. Benny is having a wonderful time playing pirate ship all by himself when along comes Penny. She wants to play too. He wants...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 26, 2010 | Mystery
If you take a dog that is being mistreated, are you rescuing it or stealing it? Ghost Dog Secrets is a mystery and a ghost story for dog lovers. How can Rusty walk by a starving dog that is chained to a tree in freezing weather and not do anything about it? When...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 26, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
At the Zelda A. Zigzag Afternoon Center, Destiny Washington is trying to come up with a personal “discovery” to add to the group project mural.She comes up empty handed and feels panicked when she sees all of her friends drawing and writing on the mural.Destiny feels...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 26, 2010 | Paranormal
Fellow Utah native Stephenie Meyer, says of author Aprilynne Pike’s novel, “Wings is a remarkable debut.” It is a truly unique novel that had this reviewer engaged from the moment I picked it up. You think you know all about fairies, trolls, King...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 26, 2010 | Picture Book
When a prince sets out to find a princess to marry, he soon discovers this is not a simple task. There is no shortage of so-called princesses, but how can he tell whether or not they are what they claim to be? Then one night a great storm rages, there comes a knock on...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 26, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The Day Their Life Fell Apart was the day a shooter turned his gun on Devon, Caitlin’s big brother. It happened at school and the grieving is just beginning. Devon was Caitlin’s best friend and guide. At the age of ten, Caitlin is just beginning to find...
