by Barb Langridge | Jul 18, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Najmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means “star,” suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are killed in an air raid. An American woman, Elaine, whose Islamic name is Nusrat, is...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 17, 2010 | Fiction
On the eve of Petronella’s 16th birthday and coming out party in Edwardian London, her guardian, Uncle Augustus, accidentally swallows a beetle, and suddenly becomes addicted to eating insects. This embarrassing situation leads to Augustus’s knocking down the party...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 17, 2010 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
“The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker). A brutally...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 17, 2010 | Picture Book
Despite a cruel stepmother’s schemes, Jouanah, a young Hmong girl, finds true love and happiness with the aid of her dead mother’s spirit and a pair of special sandals. 32 pages 978-1885008411 Ages 5-8
by Barb Langridge | Jul 16, 2010 | Mystery
Xander’s classmate Karim tells him about a famous amulet carved in the shape of Thoth, the Egyptian god of time. It was thought to be so powerful that it could turn back time one day every hundred years. And that day is in a week! The amulet disappeared from a London...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 15, 2010 | Action / Adventure
Set in England and Ghana, this story of adventure and mystery is narrated by Zach Baxter after the death of his grandfather, the founder of a club for older African men. Zach is convinced that his grandfather’s stories of treasure stolen from slaves 300 years ago...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 15, 2010 | Fiction
Told in alternating chapters of flashbacks and trial transcripts, this is a complex story of a 16 year old, Aslaug, raised in virtual isolation in rural Maine by her mother, Maren, who claims Aslaug was a virgin birth. Aslaug knows little of the outside world but has...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 15, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Sarah was only four years old when slave traders arrived in her Africanvillage, killed her mother, captured the rest of the town and boarded everyoneon ships to work as slaves in the United States. The novel opens in 1821 with Sarah describing her life on the...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 15, 2010 | Historical Fiction
What could be worse than a summer vacation with your grandmother and your bossy older sister?How about a road trip from California to Florida? Octavia and Tali’s parents arrange for them to travel to a family reunion with their very unconventional grandmother...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 15, 2010 | Fantasy
“These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . . and the one who cursed me. So...
