by Barb Langridge | Aug 17, 2010 | Fiction
Woodrow’s search for his mother, Belle, continues in this sequel to Belle Prater’s boy. After a strange and unexpected phone call on New Year’s Eve, Woodrow with his friend, Cassie, and Cousin Gypsy, leaves home and known parts to travel to...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 17, 2010 | Non-Fiction
“Select a spot for the door and its frame, facing south to catch the warm sun.” This is how you begin to erect your Ger. Yes, your Ger. That’s where you’re going to be living on this journey through Mongolia. Meet Tom McCarthy, the...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 17, 2010 | Picture Book
Who can say what is good fortune and what is bad fortune? High in the highest mountains of the world in the country of Tibet, little Yeshi lives in a small village with his father and their horse. One morning Yeshi runs to tell his father that their horse is missing....
by Barb Langridge | Aug 17, 2010 | Picture Book
Waking up in her bed surrounded by pretty yellow wallpaper, Allison is growing up in the middle of the Protestants versus the Catholics in Northern Ireland. She’s a Catholic and to walk to primary school means she risks the taunts and the rocks of the...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 17, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Alia Muhammad Baker is a hero and she is a librarian. She does not wear a superwoman costume or a powerful cape but she did a very brave and very powerful thing: she saved seventy per cent of the books in the library of Basra when the war came to that port city in...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 17, 2010 | Picture Book
Ah the beauty of the giant, beautiful diamond that sits in the white stone palace of King Balash. He is a wise and trusting ruler who visits the diamond every day to see the light and beauty and generously shares these wonders with his people. All is well until the...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 17, 2010 | Picture Book
Sometimes we feel big distances separating us from other people because of their religion, their language, their food or what they believe in. Sometimes we feel distance separating us from the people we love because they are far from us too. This is the story of a...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 17, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Did you know that John Adams had to coax Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence? It’s true. The shy Virginia statesman refused at first, but then went on to author one of our nation’s most important and inspiring documents. The third...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 17, 2010 | Picture Book
Nancy loves butterflies. That is why she is excited about her friend Bree’s butterfly themed birthday party. But when she discovers that her grandparents’ fiftieth anniversary is the same day, she is heartbroken and angry that she will miss it. Surprisingly, Nancy has...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 17, 2010 | Fiction
What fancy girl does not love a talent show? Nancy and Bree have an act all worked out. But, when Ms. Glass assigns them to other people, Nancy is not so sure she will have a good performance. Her partner Lionel is not as outgoing or as fancy as she is and they don’t...
