by Barb Langridge | Mar 30, 2010 | Mystery
Rebecca hates the idea of leaving her friends in New York City for a semester in filthy post-Katrina New Orleans attending a snooty boarding school full of the city’s richest families. She hates living with her weird Aunt Claudia who reads tarot cards for...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 30, 2010 | Historical Fiction
“There are always scary things happening in the world. There are always wonderful things happening in the world. It’s up to you how you are going to approach the world…. How you’re going to live in and what you’re going to do.” “Jo Ellen Chapman” It’s October 1962...
by Joanne | Mar 30, 2010 | Picture Book
Who’s the better hopper? Matty, the tall frog? Or Moe, who’s just plain big? Only a hopping contest can settle the matter. It takes Moe only five hops to make it to the big rock. Matty needs two more hops. So how many hops did Matty take? (5 hops + 2...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 30, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Melody is eleven years old and she has never spoken a word.She has “spastic bilateral quadraplegia , also known as cerebral palsy.It limits her body but not her mind.”“We all have disabilities.What’s yours?Imagine all of the thoughts and feelings that she has bottled...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 29, 2010 | Picture Book
Meet Picasso, the green tree frog who has the ability to change colors to camouflage himself. PIcasso could “plop into a muddy puddle and turn brown.” He can go from green to brown and from blue to green. Colors are his business. But, Picasso loves,...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 29, 2010 | Picture Book
Maybe the best way to make a friend is to learn how to not make a friend. In this hilarious how-to manual children are taught how to lose all their friends. Stop smiling. Whine. Bully people. Be a tattletale or a poor sport. These are guaranteed ways to get rid...
by Joanne | Mar 29, 2010 | Picture Book
It’s Field Day at camp. The 12 campers—a kookaburra, an emu, two platypuses, three koalas, four dingoes and Kangaroo—can’t wait for the games to start. The group divides into halves, then thirds and finally fourths to make equal-sized teams (6, 4 and 3...
by Joanne | Mar 29, 2010 | Picture Book
In Ladybug’s garden, everything is relative. Who’s big? Bigger? Biggest? Long, longer, longest? Short, shorter, shortest? Line up! It’s time for the best bug parade of all. Comparing sizes is a simple form of classification and is necessary for the...
by Joanne | Mar 29, 2010 | Picture Book
Wow! It’s a caravan of trucks, each carrying an exotic load. There are three tigers on the first truck, followed by two more on the next truck. How many tigers in all? Then come trucks filled with different numbers of swans, frogs, horses and even pandas. How...
by Joanne | Mar 28, 2010 | Picture Book
Grandma’s cat Snowy is about to have kittens, and Lisa and her little brother Joey will get to keep one. Little Pepper, whose white fur is dotted with black spots, has a very busy first year. Lisa keeps track of the highlights using a calendar. Her journal is...
