by Barb Langridge | Aug 3, 2010 | Picture Book
Eight or nine year old Arn lives a full life in his village in northern Cambodia surrounded by the familiar water buffalo, the long-legged cranes and his loving family. Then, in 1975, the Khmer Rouge exploded onto the scene destroying hospitals and schools and tearing...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 3, 2010 | Picture Book
There’s no place like home except when it’s too hot and Ten-Gallon Bart has had enough of the scorching heat in his town. He can’t sleep, can’t howl, can’t fish and can’t dig up a bone. So, when the stagecoach rolls in with news of...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 3, 2010 | Picture Book
Oh, it’s hard for things to change and when you’re little one of the hardest can be the arrival of a “ding-dang baby.” Right now that baby is still swimming in Mama and that baby loves pecan pie. But, one day when snow comes, that baby will...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 3, 2010 | Picture Book
“Abraham Lincoln, His hand and pen, He will be good but God knows when.” At age eleven, Abe Lincoln wrote “his first nonsense poem.” He was a boy who loved to learn, who loved to read and who loved words. He also loved to laugh. Life...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 3, 2010 | Picture Book
The magic and wonder of the natural world around us come alive as a young boy waits eagerly for the Big NIght when the salamanders will wake up and come out of their holes after a long, cold winter. We listen to and watch the progress of the secret salamanders and we...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 3, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Becca always loved her grandmother’s story about Briar Rose, no matter how many times Gemma told it to her and her sisters. The princess, the black-booted witch’s curse, the mist that covered the kingdom and made everyone sleep for a hundred years… not the same...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 3, 2010 | Sports
Roy can’t wait to play on the high school baseball team next year, but he’s got to pass eighth grade history first. Fooling around in history class is easier than remembering all those places and people and dates, but the cute girl he teases doesn’t agree, especially...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 3, 2010 | Fantasy
Royal soldiers seek dragons and baby draclings, since anyone who eats a dragon’s heart can’t be hurt by sword or dagger. So when the soldiers want young green-eyed Lyf to call the dragons to her, she hides and runs away, trying to reach her foster-sister Kaeldra who...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 3, 2010 | Picture Book
Chester is a cat who wants a story written about him. When his owner starts to write a storyabout a mouse, Chester interferes and writes about himself instead. A power struggle happens between thecat and the writer. This would bea great story to be read by two people....
by Barb Langridge | Aug 3, 2010 | Science Fiction
A year after a meteor moves the moon into a closer Earth orbit, Miranda and her family are among the survivors. Many people have died; distribution of previously expected services and goods is erratic if at all. Living day to day is a struggle that means life or...
