by Barb Langridge | Aug 13, 2010 | Fantasy
The sky’s the limit in this third book in the Airborn series. 18-year-old Matt Cruse is spending the summer piloting a ship involved in constructing the Celestial Tower, which is planned to reach into outer space, and furthering his relationship with...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 13, 2010 | Fantasy
Kenneth Oppel certainly knows how to grab the reader’s attention from the first page and not let go! At the beginning of this action-packed sequel to Airborn, 16-year-old Matt Cruse, now a student at the Airship Academy in Paris, is assigned to a two-week...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 13, 2010 | Fantasy
15-year-old Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the luxury airship Aurora. While on lookout duty, he spots a hot-air balloon in distress, and rescues the elderly balloonist. Matt listens to the old man describe fantastic winged mammals he claims he saw near a tropical...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 12, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
In this stirring series of vignettes, readers meet Chili Sue Mahoney, a twelve-year old girl from the hills of Kentucky. Set in the 1970s, much of the story revolves around Chili’s family, the poor down the hill, and the rich mine owners. There is some...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 12, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
At 11, Groovy already knows that she will become a chef, as famous as her science fiction author grandmother. But her plans for culinary school go up like a puff of flour from the baker’s hands when her father goes to jail and her mother is reluctant to tell her why....
by Barb Langridge | Aug 12, 2010 | Fiction
After being painstakingly protected for her first sixteen years from pricking her finger on a spinning wheel and thus invoking the curse of sleeping for a hundred years, Princess Gwennie, the most beautiful princess in the land, is tricked by a tiny gold one that was...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 12, 2010 | Picture Book
Ahh the possibilities! Erin is about to turn six and is planning her birthday party. She sits down to send off an invitation to a REAL dinosaur whose museum is far, far away. In her invitation she lists the wondrous things they could do together at the party if only...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 12, 2010 | Picture Book
Dog loves books so much that he decides to open a bookstore. Brave soul that he is. He unwrapped, unpacked and blew himself and his nose dry and then opened his door to the world. But, the world did not arrive as expected. After a few false starts with people asking...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 12, 2010 | Picture Book
Okay, do you remember Are You My Mother? This bright, modern, boldly illustrated book is a revisit of the theme of separation. Little Owl falls out of the nest while Mother Owl is sleeping soundly. “Bump, bump, bump.” Very concerned shadowy animals...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 12, 2010 | Picture Book
What do you remember the most about someone you loved who has passed on? This young girl holds onto the wonderful memories of all the times she spent with her grandmother. She knows exactly what her grandmother smells like, coffee and hairspray and perfume and earth....
