by Barb Langridge | Aug 15, 2010 | Picture Book
As this family grows and changes, a basket named Doko is there for all the important moments. First, a young man named Yeh Yeh selects the basket and takes it home to carry their new baby. The basket goes out into the fields to carry rice and kindling wood. When a...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 15, 2010 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
Girl Stolen is a young-adultthriller that delivers. It’s a real page-turner with a twist. Cheyenne Wilder is having a bad day. She has pneumonia and is waiting in the Escalade for her stepmother to fill a prescription for her. Feeling ill, Cheyenne is resting...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 15, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Taking his future into his own hands, Curzon has escaped from the thieving wagon driver who employed him and has made off with silver spoons, shoe buckles and Isabel’s seeds in his knapsack. He’s making his way far from the main road when he finds himself...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 14, 2010 | Fantasy
Asa and Rollo, orphans of royalty, discover that their parents may be alive. In order to find the truth, they must sail their invisible ship, Northseeker across treacherous seas containing lizard men, outlaws, and wyrms. Their only hope is the sorcerer, Ragni, tied to...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 14, 2010 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
A quartet of teen spies, each with a specialty take on Shadow Cell, an organization that threatens their world with nuclear disaster and other terriorist acts. In this installment, the four must deactivate a nuclear power plant before it melts down. As an introduction...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 14, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Summary: I really liked the content of this book…..each chapter is a topic about friendship qualities and quandaries: “What it means to be a friend”, “Keeping secrets and giving support” “The UnFriends”. The advice and suggestions given, as well as fictional...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 14, 2010 | Picture Book
Young Garmann is learning that the world is not always a safe place. When he goes out one day for a bike ride, he runs into Roy, the big local bully, and gets intimidated into lighting a match and playing with fire. The match drops into dry grass and a blaze erupts....
by Barb Langridge | Aug 14, 2010 | Picture Book
Swing open the giant flaps over each adorable snake to reveal which extra-long opposnake is waiting for them. This book features simple opposites such as clean to dirty, quiet to loud, hot to cold, and a grand finale of one lonely snake becoming lots and lots of...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 14, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Our bestselling series is fit for a queen! The life of Queen Elizabeth I was dramatic and dangerous: cast out of her father’s court at the age of three and imprisoned at nineteen, Elizabeth was crowned queen in 1558, when she was only twenty-five. A tough,...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 13, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Story of a boy and his family travelling to lowland jungle regions of Nepal to research dwindling tiger population. Illustrated with drawings and inset photographs with informational text. One in a series of environmental-themed stories.
