by Barb Langridge | Mar 1, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Has it ever rained fish on your town? Have you ever hidden in a closet during a tornado and opened the door when it was over to find the rest of your house was missing? Tornadoes are one of the strongest forces on Earth. Sometimes they pick up a house or a car and...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 1, 2010 | Science Fiction
The alarm sounds, “Aaaaaa-oooooo-ga!” as the spaceship Star Warts is heading for home. Battle stations everyone. Commander Toad fears they are stranded on an unknown planet. The ship isn’t moving forward or backward. They set the dials for a...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 1, 2010 | Fiction
How wonderful it is to have a unique gift that makes you special; something no one else does as well as you do. Ollie wants to have a special gift. He isn’t the fastest runner or the best reader or even the best artist. One day at school, Ollie’s teacher...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 1, 2010 | Fiction
Ten-year-old Sylvie’s life has taken a big turn this summer. She “gots to admit it though” she doesn’t know what to make of all the newness like the new man in town who is staying with Miz Lula Maye turns out to be Sylvie’s father. Sylvie...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 1, 2010 | Fiction
Sometimes it takes some hard lessons to teach us how to be our best selves. Flora is less than three months old when she is grabbed from the air by a bat and tumbles to the ground with her wings torn off and her life as a night fairy changed in one fell swoop. Luckily...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 28, 2010 | Sports
What if you made a wish on your birthday, blew out the candles and a week later the wish came true? That’s exactly what happened to Goose. Goose really wants to be the goalie on his soccer team but Alex Winkler plays that position. But, a week after Goose makes...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 28, 2010 | Humor
Eight-year-old Julian Rodriguez or Federation Officer, First Rank Rodriguez as the case may be, is desperately communicating with the Mothership to alert them of the horrendous treatment he is withstanding on the Planet Earth. “Worse than the ritual water...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 27, 2010 | Picture Book
The entire school is going to participate in the Everyone In America Reads program and if they read more than 1000 books, Principal Wiggins will dye his toupee purple and sleep on the school’s rooftop. Miss Malarkey is happily finding books that are just right...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 27, 2010 | Picture Book
Is the Sandman real? Joey’s friend Henry claims he stayed up one night and for one magical moment he actually saw the Sandman. Now Joey is lying in bed trying to stay awake so he can see the Sandman too. He’s trying to think how he could get his wagon, a...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 27, 2010 | Picture Book
” ‘What time is the party?’ Kathleen said to Charles….Minnie’s ears perked up. ‘Chjarles is having a party!’ she thought.” Minnie is so excited and she can’t wait to get her invitation. She waits and hopes and...
