by Barb Langridge | Nov 10, 2010 | Non-Fiction
A bird on the cover dressed in Sherlock Holmes clothing will give readers a “clue” as to what this book is about. In the pages that follow, 30 animals demonstrate how their superior sensory skills allow them to survive in the wild. For example, in one section we see...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 10, 2010 | Westerns
The shoe leather soup is gone, so Maddie and Aiden will starve to death soon, just as their family did on the Kansas prairie in 1865. But over the hill rides Jefferson J. Jackson, recruiting workers for the lumber camps in Washington. He allows the teens to join the...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 10, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Create your own one-of-a-kind fashions from old garments and vintage fabrics using the techniques and patterns shared by Tina and her fashion-designer friends!Tina notes that over 17 million pounds of clothing are thrown in the trash in the United States each year, so...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 9, 2010 | Fantasy
Life has been good for Christian since he was found in the forest by Edric, a lovable troll with a habit of getting his clichés mixed up. (“He’d buttered his bread, now he’d have to lie in it.”) After foiling Edric’s attempts to try to locate the his family,...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 9, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The bond between girl and horse is evident on every page as Lacey works on getting her horse ready for the horse show. As she gives him a bath, braids his mane and shines his feet, he watches and smiles. All decked out, the two arrive at the show and find it is filled...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 9, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The snow clouds are rolling in as Lionel and his family are cleaning up the kitchen together. The more Lionel talks about how cold it will be the more family members disappear to make sure they’ll have everything they need to keep warm. Finally Lionel looks...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 9, 2010 | Fiction
Remember when your lunchbox was the coolest thing on the first day of school? Arthur and Violet, chimp siblings, are waiting for the schoolbus and enjoying their lunch boxes. Along comes Norman with a lunchbox that looks exactly the same as Arthur’s. But happily...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 9, 2010 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Billed as”a first comic for brand-new readers,” this young offering from Jeff Smith, author of the Bone books, gives us an eager young mouse whose mother has just told him to get ready to go to the barn. All by himself this little guy lays out the clothes...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 9, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Seth McCoy has an abundance of problems: a mother who isn’t at all a mother or authority figure, a brother full of anger, bandmembers who argue all the time, and a ton of guilt and self-hatred for letting his best friend die last summer. Not only that,...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 9, 2010 | Action / Adventure
Do you have military/heroic fantasy readers? Historical fiction readers? How about readers of war stories, action, and adventure? What if you could satisfy them plus the bonus of introducing them to the oldest “classic” of Western Literature? Homer’s...
