by Barb Langridge | Jul 11, 2010 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
He watched Gemma for years – at the park, in her room – then he stole her, drugged her coffee and took her away from her parents at the Bangkok airport. Now she’s in a desert, miles and miles from any town, continents away from her London high school, alone with him....
by Barb Langridge | Jul 11, 2010 | Fantasy
Charlotte’s 8th grade year is so ordinary, so boring, so blah. Maybe the kitten who followed her home will liven things up, or her same-age cousin Zee visiting from England, or those creepy pale men in tuxedos who watch them from the woods… When a mysterious illness...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 11, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Welcome to a small island community in Maine woven tightly with fishing families and traditions and patterns that have repeated forever. All of this is in danger of fading away because there just aren’t enough children left to attend the island schoolhouse and...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 10, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Two dads – best friends forever, their sons named for each other, firefighters together, dead in a flash. Their sons must start their senior year of high school without them, their wives wish they could hear the phone ring again from the “Hothouse” fire station. Their...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 10, 2010 | Fantasy
Black ashes fill the sky, as the City across the river burns. Green thought it wasn’t fair that she had to stay in the garden while her little sister and parents took their produce to the market across the bridge. Soon she would be 16 and could move to the city if she...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 10, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Max helps a younger girl escape from her abusive stepfather by running away with her to the distant town of Chivalry, Montana, to search for her real father. In the dramatic sequel to Freak the Mighty, two outsiders, Max and Worm, turn to each...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 9, 2010 | Picture Book
Want to hook your youngreader onto the All-Americansuperhero of all time? RalphCosentino writes and illustrates a gorgeous introduction to The Man ofSteel. Using first personnarrative, Cosentino has Superman tell his young readers of his birth andescape from his home...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 9, 2010 | Picture Book
Exuberant, playful children dance, twirl, and whirl through this picture book, celebrating different body parts and what they can do. The final quarter of the book has the characters giving thanks for all their different parts, culminating in gratitude for everything...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 9, 2010 | Picture Book
A girl named Sarah takes a walk through the jungle where she meets a lion who challenges her presence in his jungle. When she doesn’t give him a satisfactory answer, he decides to have her as his lunch. Chamberlain’s color pallet is bright and bold, and the jungle...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 9, 2010 | Picture Book
A Field Guide to Aliens is Johan Olander’s follow up to A Field Guide to Monsters. Populated with reader pleasing grotesque alien life forms, the author/illustrator assembles a humorous, tongue-in-cheek study of the alien world. Illustrated to appear like a notebook...
