by Barb Langridge | May 2, 2010 | Picture Book
Once upon a time Old Goat, Turkey and Small Pig went for a row in a little red boat. Now normally turkeys and goats aren’t at home in boats but off they row anyway. Turkey objecting and Old Goat willing to try out the possibilities. Small Pig decides to fish for...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 30, 2010 | Fiction
“What makes a ten year old girl think she can go out in a boat alone, at night, with only her dog for a sailing mate?” The immediate answer to that question in this book is muscles but there’s much more to the story. You see Keeper, who is the ten...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 30, 2010 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
If you like playing chess and watching a cat and mouse game unfold, this is a book for you. Eighteen year old Carl Hobbes escapes time after time from the net cast by CIA agents who want to stop him from hacking their system. Hobbes is fresh from a break in at Fort...
by Maria Lemonnier | Apr 30, 2010 | Historical Fiction
After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl. From the publisher. 69 pages ISBN-13:...
by Maria Lemonnier | Apr 30, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Kirsten and her family will be celebrating their first Christmas in America. Kirsten wants to keep some of their old Swedish traditions alive in the new country, so she secretly plans a Saint Lucia celebration. But everything depends on a trip to town with Papa, and...
by Maria Lemonnier | Apr 30, 2010 | Fiction
Kirsten’s excited about the changes spring is bringing to the Larsons’ farm–including a big barn and a tiny baby. But changes bring new worries and more work, too. First Kirsten is afraid for Mama’s health. Then caring for a baby seems to mean...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 27, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Ten-year-old Ursula helps her parents run their stagecoach stop in Whistle, Montana, spends time wandering through the hills, and plays a pirate adventure game with her friends. However, everything changes when she gets smallpox, which leaves ugly scars on her face....
by Barb Langridge | Apr 27, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Mia St. Clair is ten years old. The only girl in a family of boys, she has grown up playing hockey. Yet Mia yearns to do—and be—something different from her older brothers. Figure skating seems to be the perfect choice for someone who loves being on the ice. However,...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 27, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Nicki Fleming can’t say “no” when asked for a favor. So when her mother is unable to take on the training of a guide dog, Sprocket, because she is expecting a baby, Nicki takes on the task. She grows to love the adorable puppy in her care. Will she...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 27, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Fourth grader Chrissa Maxwell moves to a new school in the middle of the school year. When the unfriendliness of several girls in her class turns into bullying, Chrissa must decide how to solve the problem. 124 pages contributed by B. Karp
