by Barb Langridge | Jul 24, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks is narrated by high schoolsophomore Carly, who lives with her parents and her sister Anna in a wealthysuburb of Atlanta. Carly comes home from a summer of roughing it in themountains of Tennessee, and little sister Anna, who will be a...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 24, 2010 | Mystery
Thirteen-year-old Sherry Holmes Baldwin helps her dead mother discover who is stalking and threatening Sherry’s stepmother. Complicating Sherry’s life is the fact that her mother is competing in the Ghostolympics with the hope of winning five realtime minutes with...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 24, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Coming of age storyset during the Middle Ages, sixteen-year-old Babylonne runs away from her auntand abusive grandmother.Disguisedas a boy, feisty, independent and resourceful, Babylonne would rather seek alife in a vicious war with the French than marry the senile...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 24, 2010 | Fantasy
Averil must wed someone from her evil uncle’s court, or his dark Serpent magic will force soul-stripped soldiers to overrun her country, just as he exploded the headquarters of Knights of the Rose and their good magic. Away in the land of Prydain, Gereint and the...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 23, 2010 | Picture Book
Hopes and dreams are international commodities. Yasmin and her family used to live in a bamboo house in the country where they raised rice and ate mangoes from their own tree. Then, the cyclone came and stole away the life they knew. Now they live in the city of Dhaka...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 23, 2010 | Picture Book
Spots, spots, spots are everywhere especially in this new must-have picture book from Lois Ehlert. With her classic bright animals filling the page, she directs our eye to the wonder of spots in the animal kingdom. There are animals we know well, like say, frogs and...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 23, 2010 | Picture Book
Welcome to India, a land of exotic sights, sounds, smells and the amazing elephant. Ted and Betsy Lewin journey to southern India to see the elephants. They find a place of banyan trees, rice paddies and the magnificence of elephants. They have the privilege of...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 23, 2010 | Picture Book
No matter what the problem, when Tricia Tusa is the illustrator, the world is a wonderful place. She just has a joyful quality that emanates from her pages and the light touch of Kelly DiPucchio takes a tricky subject and builds a playful story that brings an...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 23, 2010 | Picture Book
Oh no! The mailman has fallen into the birdbath! With bold, bright two-page spread illustrations, the cast of characters of this cumulative story (a la This is the House That Jack Built) burst forth to reveal just how they helped to get him there. It took a bit of...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 23, 2010 | Picture Book
How our children need their sense of Wonder! Gently, with small, quiet, containable pictures, clouds gather and a storm is unleashed. There’s a great power in storms and some of our youngest are not comfortable with what they perceive as untamed violence...
