by Barb Langridge | Nov 6, 2010 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
YOTSUBA heeeeeere! Guess what, guess what!? Yotsuba is going to a flower store with Fuuka! Yotsuba’s gonna give flowers to everybody in the whole, wide world, even the police lady with her whistle that goes – PI! PI! PIPI! PI! PIPUUUUUUUU!!—from the...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 6, 2010 | Sports
Amanda Caler comes to realize she’s afraid of the soccer ball, and as if that weren’t enough, it looks as if someone is trying to steal her spot at halfback. Illustrations.—from the publisher 64 pages 978-0316164979 ...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 6, 2010 | Sports
Bundy works hard at being the best soccer player he can be. He always encourages his teammates, and works extra hard during practice. So when his attitude changes, little does his teammates know that he’s been saddled with a baby-sitter....
by Joanne | Nov 6, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Josefina fears that Christmas will not be the same after the death of her mother, but Christmas Eve brings surprises for all. — from the publisher 69 pages ISBN-13:978-1562475208 Ages 8 and up Grades 3-4
by Barb Langridge | Nov 6, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Josefina is delighted when T’a Dolores returns to the Montoyas’ rancho. But soon after she arrives, a flash flood kills hundreds of the family’s sheep. T’a Dolores suggests that the Montoyas could recover from this terrible loss by starting a...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 6, 2010 | Historical Fiction
In the sequel to Sphinx’s Princess, young Nefertiti is running for her life from thePharaoh-to-be, Thutmose. Once promised to him in marriage, she has since developed more than a friendship for his younger brother Amenophis, and in his outrage, Thutmose has trumped up...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 6, 2010 | Science Fiction
A comet has entered the Earth’s atmosphere and deposited a deadly virus that infects and eventually kills all adults on the planet. Children under the age of 18, however, are immune to the virus. Scientists soon realize that there is no cure for this virus and that...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 6, 2010 | Fiction
Considered the voice of the Roaring 1920’s F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the era—its extravagance, its arrogance, its notoriety, its sordidness.Nick Carraway, a transplant from Minnesota, rents a cottage in a wealthy community of West Egg in Long Island, New York—it is...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 5, 2010 | Fantasy
Provocative, compelling, thrilling, dark, dangerous, gritty, and disturbing. This is a book that I dreamt about for a week after reading it. Not a novel that one will soon forget. Although it takes about thirty pages to set up, from there on the reader will be...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 5, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
No one can ever come into Lucy’s house – no one, ever. How could she let them see her mother’s hoardings? The towering stacks of newspapers, the mold covering every surface in the kitchen, all the “treasures” that she will never let Lucy clean up or move or even...
