by Barb Langridge | Nov 16, 2010 | Mystery
Aunt Eater the anteater sees a mystery waiting to be solved everywhere she goes. It’s Chrismas time and Aunt Eater has gone to town to do her shopping. As she visits the shops she sees a note that tells her someone is going to rob the jewelry store. When she...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 16, 2010 | Fantasy
Continuing right after the events of Playing with Fire, The Faceless Ones tells the story of Skulduggery Pleasant, skeleton detective and wizard, and Valkyrie Cain – wizard apprentice and descendent of The Ancients. The book begins as Valkyrie and Skulduggery are...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 16, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Ah the ingenuity of our immigrant pioneers. Young Danny is writing a letter to his father who is seeking gold in the Sierra Nevada mountains and he wishes his father would come home in time for Christmas. Then the snows come and word spreads that no more mail will go...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 16, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Betsy lives in the middle of wide open spaces and a cabin and a family. It’s a wonderful life but she has a problem. There are no other girls her age anywhere near her home so she has no one to play with. Pa loves to fiddle and Ma makes berry pies and the family...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 16, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Samara Brooks, eighth grade math whiz and con artist, decides to start a black-jack ring in the cafeteria during lunch time. Despite her flyers being taken down very quickly, she is joined by the class president (Lily Frederick), the school science wiz and UFO expert...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 16, 2010 | Fantasy
A year after Valkyrie Cain, formerly Stephanie Edgely, is introduced to the world of magic, she is thrust into another adventure with her partner Skulduggery Pleasant. This time one of Skulduggery’s enemies named, Baron Vengeous, is seeking others loyal to Mevolent in...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 15, 2010 | Westerns
It’s 1822, eighteen-year-old Eastern farm boy, Sam Morgan, lights out west for St. Louis. He joins up with a fur brigade going up the Missouri River. Young men went West for various reasons: escape the law, a broken heart, poverty, strike it rich, or adventure....
by Barb Langridge | Nov 15, 2010 | Fantasy
Fifteen-year-old Ben (short for Benevolence) finds herself suddenly–and reluctantly–next in line to the throne of Montagne when her uncle, the king, and her mother are murdered, and her father vanishes. The teen is not your average princess: she is...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 15, 2010 | Picture Book
Dilly’s dizzy dances are often daring and dangerous. After she dances off the end of the dock and nearly drowns, she decides to give up dancing. Her teacher Alpha Betty shows her how to do dreamy, dazzling dances that are delightful and Dilly gives up her dizzy...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 15, 2010 | Sports
Sophomore Liam “Bergie” Bergstrom is elated being moved up to the basketball varsity. So what if the coach picked him just because he is tall and the starting senior got injured. Liam is determined to succeed and give 110%! Unfortunately, Liam soon...
