by Barb Langridge | Jun 13, 2010 | Fiction
Amy needs a fresh start for her senior year of high school. Leaving an abusive relationship behind in Seattle, she moves to a tiny town in the Cascade Mountains to live in a run-down trailer with her great-aunt Mae. On Mae’s land Amy finds a clearing shrouded in...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 13, 2010 | Action / Adventure
Storm-driven to the rocky shores of 1612 Japan, Jack sees his father and shipmates killed by ninja pirates. Rescued from the wreckage by a samurai’s men, the young blond teen is the first Englishman ever to visit Japan, bringing with him only his father’s secret sea...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 13, 2010 | Chick Lit
Jenna is a Green Teen for environmental awareness at her high school, so when she can choose between spending the summer in the Canadian woods with her godmother Susie or snoozing through card games at her grandmother’s Florida retirement village, she jumps at the...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 13, 2010 | Picture Book
“Cozy, dozy, drowsy . . . drop” is the chorus repeated after each of seven lively little bunnies drop into bed.Children will enjoy echoing its rhyme with the reader. Each bunny prolongs her/his eventual drift into slumber with childlike antics.The number seven is a...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 13, 2010 | Picture Book
Fantastic photo-realistic illustrations move the story along in author/illustrator Bill Thomson’s picture book Chalk. In this wordless fantasy adventure, three children find a bag of sidewalk chalk hanging from the mouth of a playground dinosaur. As they use the chalk...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 13, 2010 | Fiction
This Level 1 reader opens with a question for the reader to determine why Milly is so silly. The story progresses with two lines per page indicating first what Milly likes and then following what she does not like in a repetitive pattern. Cartoonish, frenetic,...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 13, 2010 | Mystery
After Zack’s abusive mother dies of cancer, he fears she may be haunting him, so he’s relieved when his father moves him and his new, nice stepmother to Connecticut. But, once there, he finds himself living in a world filled with ghosts, most of whom are...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 12, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
It’s summer and thirteen-year-old Kyle is waiting impatiently for his family to get into the car to drive out to the cottage by the lake. This is where the family goes in the summer time and it’s where Kyle is hoping he can find some peace and feel like...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 11, 2010 | Fiction
Meet the Pygg brothers: James, Marvin and Lester. They might remind you of some other pigs you’ve read about but no, these are the PYGG brothers. When we meet them, they are working together, more or less, to build a house of brick. I know, I know it sounds...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 11, 2010 | Picture Book
I don’t know about you, but I’ve gotten to a place where if I see a book with E.B. Lewis on it, I grab it. The man is just a genius. This is the first book by Geoffrey Norman and it begins with the familiar fears of a young girl who doesn’t like the...
