by Barb Langridge | Aug 20, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
It’s the 1930’s in Kentucky and the Great Depression is stealing hopes and dreams. Twelve year old Artie Wilson lives on a farm in the hill country and does her part to help her family survive the difficult times. Artie dreams of leaving her farm, of...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 20, 2010 | Historical Fiction
It’s the year 1159 and a Spanish Jew named Benjamin Tudela is embarking on a fourteen year journey across Europe and into the Middle East. Along the way we have the thrill of experiencing the world during this time period visiting Jews living in precarious...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 20, 2010 | Picture Book
A curious cat makes her way into the presence of the emperor and saves his life by noticing that the ceiling above his head is about to collapse. The cat stays and makes a home with the emperor. As time passes the cat offers advice to the emperor and introduces a...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 20, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Her beautiful voice attracts a lot of attention and some money for the family coffers when she sings in the subway, but thirteen year old Kira doesn’t want to be the center of attention. She joins the chorus at her new school and makes two friends. One is Jake...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 20, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Edwin and John Wilkes Booth were the two sons of famed actor Junius Booth. Their lives were intertwined but it was John’s passion for the Confederacy that led him down a dark path. Both brothers were dedicated actors though Edwin leaned toward the classical...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 20, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
High school freshman, Toby Malone, is desperately trying to get some kind of control over the nightmare that his family has become. His father gone, Toby’s mother is trying to provide for her three boys and is struggling to make ends meet. Toby’s older...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 20, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Published in 2001, this book follows seven year old Ren Yikang through an average day in her city, Changzhi in China. She has her daily chores, her breakfast, ride to school, classes, homework and bedtime routines which will ring familiar to children all over the...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 20, 2010 | Picture Book
You know those classic picture books we love have a simplicity and an empathy for children that reaches deep and keeps them on the bookshelf forever. Here is one of those old friends. A young boy has found himself a quiet place to read his book about wild animals and...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 20, 2010 | Picture Book
Okay, I admit when I looked at the first page and it said 1 + 1 = 3 and the two animals in the illustration were reading books called Mythical Beasts and Barnyard Buddies, I was stumped and I said to my husband, “I hate when I can’t understand...
by Joanne | Aug 20, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Who is this woman who knows my father and might have kissed him? Those are the thoughts that run through Frankie’s mind when she reads an email that does not belong to her. Told through emails and diary entries we follow twelve year old Frankie through some...
