by Barb Langridge | Nov 20, 2010 | Picture Book
The author uses repetitive word play to tell the story of an African American boy who loses and then recovers his dog while sledding in the snow.–from the publisher 32 pages 978-0803714564 Ages 3-5...
by Joanne | Nov 19, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Julie Albright doesn’t want to move, even just a few miles away. Moving means leaving her best friend, Ivy, and her pet rabbit, Nutmeg. Worst of all, it means leaving Dad, now that her parents are divorced. Then Julie finds out that her new school has a...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 19, 2010 | Science Fiction
Guy Montag is a typical fireman. When the station receives a call, the alarm sounds and he steps into action. However, instead of putting out fires, Montag is the one to start them. During this time when books are considered dangerous, even the simple act of owning...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 19, 2010 | Science Fiction
Behemoth begins just where Leviathan left off, with the Darwinist beast-ship Leviathan racing toward Istanbul as World War I rages. Still aboard the Leviathan are Midshipman Deryn/Dylan Sharp, a tough-as-nails teenaged British girl disguised as a boy, and Alek, royal...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 18, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Are your “knights in shiny armor” books getting a little dull and rusty? Not exactly a waiting list for Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe? Are the sixty-year old Rosemary Sutcliff titles and standard Howard Pyle’s Men Of Iron, gathering dust? Have you...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 18, 2010 | Westerns
Drought is the cattleman’s enemy, so renegade drovers are cutting the fences to get to ranchers’ ponds and watering holes. Jesse works with his pa and older brother to repair the barbed-wire fences day after day in the scorching heat, worrying that his family’s food...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 18, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Written in simple sentences with clearly labeled photographs and illustrations, this book educates as it frightens with clear, full color photographs of bats in all aspects of their lives. Whether interested in cave dwelling bats in general, other bat habitats,...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 18, 2010 | Non-Fiction
THE “UNSINKABLE” MEETS THE UNTHINKABLE — A gripping account of the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic. It took 4,000 men to build it, 23 tons of animal grease to slide it into the ocean, 100,000 people to wave bon voyage, but only one wrong move...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 18, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 18, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Based on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie is the third book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. This edition features Garth Williams’ classic art in vibrant full-color....
