by Barb Langridge | Oct 15, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Author Devin Scillian presents a fictionalized account of one black family’s attempt to escape the racism of the Post-Civil War east and grab a piece of the American Dream by participating in one of the five Oklahoma Land Run opportunities run between1889-1895. The...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 15, 2010 | Picture Book
Although she is a poor country girl and the daughter of a rice farmer, Little Sap is chosen to be trained as a dancer in the Royal Palace of Cambodia in the early 1900’s. Though she often feels unsure of herself, and the training is hard, Little Sap strives to...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 15, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The year is 1968, and America is in an uproar over the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. Lyza’s best friend isn’t allowed to eat with her at the local diner because of the color of his skin, her big sister has become an obnoxious Janis Joplin-loving hippie,...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 15, 2010 | Historical Fiction
“Where they burn books, they will end by burning human beings.” 19th century German writer, Heinrich Heine The above quote at the beginning of the book gives the reader an idea of what to expect. It is Berlin, Germany, 1932. Thirteen year old Gabriella...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 15, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
It’s hard being the son of a famous former football player, especially when you have neither the talent nor the inclination to participate in any kind of sports yourself. 12-year old Kevin Pugh is a dedicated couch potato who prefers spending time perfecting his TV...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 15, 2010 | Fiction
Tally, 11, is happy living with her widowed doctor father and devoted aunts. But it is 1939, and London–with war on the horizon–is not a safe place to be, so Tally’s father decides to send his daughter to a boarding school in the Devon countryside....
by Barb Langridge | Oct 15, 2010 | Picture Book
1982 Newbery Medal Winner A 1982 Caldecott Honor Book Inspired by William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, this delightful collection of poetry for children brings to life Blake’s imaginary inn and its unusual guests.—from the publisher 48...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 14, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
If you love Patrician MacLachlan and Katherine Paterson you will welcome Glenda Millard and her terrific series about the Silk family Meet young Griffin Silk who was the last Silk to be born after a whole rainbow of sisters. They even put a period after his name. But...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 14, 2010 | Picture Book
“Children must be allowed to dream and have a horizon to work toward,” says Elinor Smith who in 1930 at the age of nineteen “was voted the best woman pilot in the United States by the nation’s fliers, selected over Amelia Earhart, and other...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 14, 2010 | Picture Book
The little boy in the pajamas with the cars all over them loves to go outside but his mother is always working, working, working around the house and it always has to be “later.” Can he go outside all by himself? No, his mother tells him because he is too...
