by Barb Langridge | Sep 24, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Claire Perry takes her fourteen-year-old sister Nellie, who is a champion gymnastics competitor, to a summer beach party. At the party Nellie gets drunk. On the way home, Claire lets Nellie goad her into passing their friend Adam so Nellie can flash him. They get into...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 24, 2010 | Action / Adventure
The book is part of a series but can easily stand alone. James Bond is a young man attending Eton in England. While there, he gets caught up in trying to stop a plot to kill the king. Someone is also out to kill James Bond. He meets a girl, whom he really likes and he...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 24, 2010 | Non-Fiction
In a picture-book biography acclaimed for both its accuracy and beauty, Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema describe how Shaka, a brilliant military strategist, rose from humble beginnings to lead a mighty people nearly two centuries ago. It is an unforgettable...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 24, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Winner, 1955 Newbery Medal Shora is a fishing village in Holland. It has some houses, and a church, and a tower, and is situated tight against a dike on the shore of the North Sea. This is Holland of a century ago, with wooden shoes and white caps and wide-legged...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 24, 2010 | Picture Book
One of the only original board books about gay parents! A perfect purchase for new parents, baby showers, and more! Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its mommies. From hide-and-seek to dress-up, then bath time...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 24, 2010 | Humor
Readers familiar with Nikki will welcome her back. This second installment is equally as funny as the first book.Nikki finds herself in a dilemma: she has a date for the dance with oh-so-hot Brandon, a plan to meet her two best friends and dress alike for the...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 24, 2010 | Fantasy
A remarkable debut novel from a new voice across the pond (England). 13 Treasures is truly a treasure of a book. Tanya’s mother forces her to go to her grandmother’s spooky family estate far from the city. Tanya thinks the old mansion is creepy and...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 24, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The quiet home and life of Scarlet and her mother on Parrish Island, Oregon, is disturbed with the arrival of pregnant Juliet, Hayden, and dog Zeus. During the spring and summer, seventeen year-old Scarlet watches her sister, Juliet, struggle to develop the maturity...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 23, 2010 | Picture Book
Since the Tall Boots–the Nazis–have marched into Monique’s small French village, terrorizing it, nothing surprises her. Until the night Monique encounters “the little ghost” sitting at the end of her bed. When she turns out to...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 23, 2010 | Picture Book
Ella Kazoo has so many better things to do than brush her hair. Her mother thinks otherwise. The daily battle commences. Sound familiar to anyone? Ella hides the brush and does other distracting activities. But Mom and Ella find a way to work together to solve the...
