by Barb Langridge | Jul 19, 2010 | Fiction
Rory Swenson has waited her entire life to be twelve years old. Now she’s about to have her twelfth birthday and her life will be everything she’s ever dreamed of. She can get her own cell phone- she does but she keeps getting calls from people trying to...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 19, 2010 | Picture Book
In the neighborhoods of New Orleans in those days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, children played hide and seek, helped make jumbalaya and knew they belonged. The voices of Keesha, Michael, Tommy and Adrienne describe their lives before and after the hurricane using...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 19, 2010 | Fantasy
Do we have to stop for every monument,” Sadie Kane asks her father as they stop at Cleopatra’s Needle in the heart of London. So begins the adventure of Sadie and Carter Kane. “The two of you combine the blood of two ancient families…. both of...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 18, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Akash’s talent for math can’t stop the drought in his village in India, can’t grow enough crops to pay back the money his family owes, can’t cure the fever that strikes his father. So he must leave school and the village at age 12 to work off their debt in the...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 18, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Welcome to Meadowbrook, New Jersey where the kids have all the right shoes and purses and phones and whatever else you can think of. These families are so well off they hire maids and nannies and tutors. But, the maids and nannies have families too. This is the story...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 18, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Perry Mason and Encylopedia Brown say Hello to Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer. He’s about to teach us all a thing or two about the law. Theo is the son of two lawyers and is already practicing whether he wants to or not at school. Kids and secretaries turn to Theo...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 18, 2010 | Historical Fiction
It’s 1968 in Chicago and times are a’changin. Two brothers are faced with making choices as they decide how they are going to respond to and be a part of the Civil Rights movement. They know things need to change but what is the “right” way to...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 18, 2010 | Picture Book
Sam Spade, move over! In his years on the force, Tough Cookie Busted the Ginger Snaps and broke up the Macaroons. Now living as a private eye at the bottom of the cookie jar, he learns that Fingers has gotten his old partner, Chips. With his best girl, Pecan Sandy, at...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 18, 2010 | Historical Fiction
The Great Miao, master of the Jade Circus, offers Haoyou the amazing chance to escape his family’s poverty — by becoming a kite rider. Strapped onto a beautiful scarlet-and-gold kite, Haoyou is sent into the sky, earning money, freedom, and unexpected...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 18, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Bound to her late father’s second wife and daughter. Bound to a life of servitude as a young girl in ancient China, where a woman is valued less than livestock. Bound to be alone, with no parents to arrange for a suitable husband. Xing Xing spends her days...
