by Barb Langridge | Sep 18, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Imagine yourself in France in 1940 as World War II has begun and you are a schoolboy playing war with friends in the hills. It’s September 12 and you’re out of school for a holiday. Along comes an older boy with a story to tell. His dog had “fallen...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 17, 2010 | Science Fiction
Eyeball evolution anyone? Alien biology and physiology? How about those technological aliens…do you know the difference between a Repton Clone and a Denebian Cyborg? Just asking. Professor Allen Gray of S.P.A.C.E is about to offer you the opportunity of a...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 17, 2010 | Non-Fiction
By the early 1900s, nearly two million children were working in the United States. From the coal mines of Pennsylvania to the cotton mills of New England, children worked long hours every day under stunningly inhumane conditions. After years and years of oppression,...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 17, 2010 | Poetry
What a classy, beautiful celebration of trees and nature all cocooned in poetic words. Here is a chance to look at a book from a whole new perspective. Instead of holding the book in your lap and reading from left to right, you need to turn it so you can read from the...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 17, 2010 | Picture Book
A Chinese family gathers together in a meadow beneath the golden, glowing moon in the night sky. It’s the mid-autumn moon festival and they are bringing their foods, their secret wishes, and their reverence for the beautiful, mysterious symbol of harmony and...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 16, 2010 | Picture Book
A boy Larnal Gives Mrs. katz tush. Then MRS. katz tells larnal about her life. After that They lost tush but They found her. Then MRS. katz and went to her Husband’s grave. They put stones on Mrs katz husband’s grave. Then Larnal had Hanukkah with MRS....
by Barb Langridge | Sep 16, 2010 | Mystery
Sophie decides to investigate the white face she saw in the church tower window, which would make anyone scream during 7th grade English class, right? So she, Rebecca and Margaret cross the courtyard from St. Veronica School to St. Veronica Church, where they find...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 16, 2010 | Humor
Honk if you love Pluto!In the latest offering from Megan McDonald’s Stink series, Stink Moody and his friends take a stand in the name of science.When Stink finds out that Pluto is too small and shrimpy to be considered a planet anymore, he, kind of a shrimpy kid...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 16, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
“But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl.” “What use is she to us?” “We might be of some use to her.” Such is the welcome given to the orphan girl, Anne, who has been chosen to help the Cuthbert family on the farm in...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 16, 2010 | Non-Fiction
An inspiring look at the fight for the vote, by an award-winning author Only 44 years ago in the U.S., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a fight to win blacks the right to vote. Ground zero for the movement became Selma, Alabama. Award-winning author Elizabeth...
