by Barb Langridge | Sep 2, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
At 14, Mirabelle feels separated from real life – trapped in the basement apartment by her divorced mother who knows to the minute how long it takes Mira to walk home from school, reading in the school library so she doesn’t have to talk to anyone at lunch, hiding...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 2, 2010 | Action / Adventure
Jack’s hidden stash of old comic books is his only refuge from endless chores and bullying at the orphanage where he was abandoned as a baby 12 years ago. Captain Courage! Laser Girl! Evil circle-eyed Robo-Zombies who turn their victims into Robo-Zombies! While...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 2, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Destiny Lozada is going to be celebrating her fifteenth birthday. Her mother wants her to have a huge quinceanera celebration. Her sister, America, says it is a demeaning ceremony. Destiny tries to please everyone, and finally discovers what she wants to do and gets...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 2, 2010 | Action / Adventure
Big-nosed barbarians! A ship larger than 7 fishing boats! Is it rescue…or capture? Young Manjiro was not sure what to tell the 4 other Japanese fishermen who had drifted to a rocky island after a storm in 1841, barely surviving. But the captain of the American whaling...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 2, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The summer before 10th grade, Dr. Rose says that Natalie will go blind – completely and absolutely blind, maybe overnight, maybe before Christmas. So she transfers to the Baltimore Center for the Blind boarding school so she can learn Braille and learn how to cope....
by Barb Langridge | Sep 2, 2010 | Picture Book
A little girl looks out of the window of her city apartment into the street where an organ grinder and his monkey stand in the cold. She thinks about them and she wonders about them and she worries about them. She asks her mother questions about them. “Where do...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 2, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
One book, two good friends and three grand stories offer the gifts of warmth, humor and a keen insight into children. Bink and Gollie are very good friends though they are truly the long and short of it. They don’t always agree on everything, they don’t...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 1, 2010 | Fiction
An old, elegant hotel is the setting for Allie Jo and a summer of discovery. Allie Jo’s parents manage the hotel and it’s home to the family. She knows all the back ways and the tunnels and the staff. But, she struggles to make friends at school and this...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 1, 2010 | Humor
Cue the Jaws music ’cause here comes Zombiekins. He looks harmless sitting there at the little old yard sale in the uneventful town of Dementedyville with “one floppy bunny ear on a teddy bear’s head and body….webbed paws with sharp claws..feet...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 1, 2010 | Fiction
Thoughtless, selfish stepsisters ring a bell? That’s the lot of Elizabeth in her new life since her mother passed away and she’s trying to find her place. As we meet her on the city streets, Elizabeth is choosing to give her sneakers to a homeless woman...
