by Barb Langridge | May 8, 2010 | Picture Book
With bright, energetic colors and vivid patterns, this glorious book on butterflies opens to green and purple eggs hidden in the foliage. Then, as you turn the half pages the chrysalis appears in different colors and then the caterpillars wiggle out and finally the...
by Barb Langridge | May 8, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Thirteen-year-old Kyle Davidson’s father is Salesman of the Year and the whole family gets to go on a dream vacation to the Oregon coast. They’ll be staying in a luxury hotel and having the time of their lives. Only when they get to the hotel everything...
by Barb Langridge | May 7, 2010 | Picture Book
I know, I know. Another underwear book. But, trust me this one isn’t the same as those others. You see, one day when the wind blows wildly,all the wash on the clothes line blows away. “Socks and shirts, a woolly hat….and Young Charlie’s...
by Barb Langridge | May 7, 2010 | Picture Book
Yoon is a young girl who has moved from Korea to America. She is going to start school and her father tells her she must learn to print her name in English. But her name doesn’t look good in English. It’s lines and has no joy. In Korean her name...
by Barb Langridge | May 7, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Musically gifted, nine year old Anna Maria’s life changes forever after her father’s sudden death. It is the year 1715 and Anna Maria is sent to the Pietà, a convent, orphange and music school for orphaned and abandoned girls located in Venice, Italy. Scared and...
by Barb Langridge | May 7, 2010 | Picture Book
Imagine living in a refugee camp in the Sudan. That’s where we meet Sangoel who is a Dinka. His father has been killed in the war in Sudan and now Sangoel is a refugee. He is moving to America. There his mother and his sister and Sangoel move into an apartment...
by Barb Langridge | May 6, 2010 | Action / Adventure
Playing games online all day, every day sounds like fun, doesn’t it? But for young people packed into smoky internet cafes in Singapore, Shenzen, and Mumbai, it’s a matter of survival. People have discovered how to turn online “gold coins” and “magic gems” into real...
by Barb Langridge | May 5, 2010 | Picture Book
A joyful story celebrating the love between a granddaughter and her grandmother. A young girl and her grandmother enjoy a day filled with tea parties, hide-and-seek, stories, and plenty of love. This delightful picture books follows a young girl and her grandmother...
by Barb Langridge | May 2, 2010 | Non-Fiction
One of the more mysterious mathematical patterns we’ve discovered is the sequence of the Fiboonacci numbers. The pattern looks like this: 1, 1,2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and so on. The formula is to add the first two numbers and they will give you the sum of the next...
by Barb Langridge | May 2, 2010 | Picture Book
Bridget loves to draw and her favorite place to draw is outdoors. She creates masterpiece after masterpiece using her art supplies but her most important tool isn’t paint or paper…it’s a big black hat. It is, in fact, a beret which as we all know is...
