by Barb Langridge | Feb 23, 2010 | Fiction
Gypsy Rizka is on a journey in search of her father. As she wanders from town to town, she finds herself confronted with problems. Being a clever, resourceful girl, she creates a unique solution to each obstacle and succeeds in bringing harmony and resolution to each...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 23, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
So how would you feel if you read an email from a woman to your own father and in that email it sounded like they might have kissed? Well, twelve year old Frankie is shocked and she decides to write this interloper back and explain to her that her father does not have...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 23, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
An eighth grader in a beauty pageant? It’s not quite what it seems. Meet Celeste whose aunt has just entered her in the Miss Husky Peach Beauty Pageant….it’s for girls who are in the larger sizes. Imagine the embarrassment….well, Celeste...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 23, 2010 | Science Fiction
When a team of anthropologists finds a dolphin’s scapula on a dig in Africa, the lives of two girls separated in time by millions of years will connect. This is the story of these two girls’ lives. One is Vinnie who lives in our time, eleven years old, and...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 23, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
“We’re on the road again,” could be the theme song of Dinnie’s family as her father takes them from opportunity to opportunity and new town to new town. Dinnie never gets to stay in one place long enough to put down any roots and most of the...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 22, 2010 | Mystery
“I have news for you, King.Your people aren’t missing.They just don’t want you anymore.That’s why you’re in the P O U N D, ” says Sam, the bassett hound.But King is no ordinary dog.He’s a dog who has known love and family and best of all, he’s a...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 22, 2010 | Picture Book
“Storm in the night. Thunder like mountains blowing up. Lightning licking the navy-blue sky. Rain streaming down the windows, babbling in the downspouts. And Grandfather? . . . And Thomas? . . . And Ringo, the cat? They were in the dark. Too early to go to bed,...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 22, 2010 | Picture Book
Seven-year-old Laura Iwasaki is returning to the Manzana Relocation Camp to honor her grandfather who was buried there in 1943. Laura’s father’s family, Japanese Americans, had been taken to this internment camp during WWII. Over 10,000...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 22, 2010 | Picture Book
During the long hot summer of 1787, fifty-five delegates gathered in Philadelphia at what is now Independence Hall with the windows closed to draft what is now our U.S. Constitution. Sprinkled with humor and the occasional anecdote of gossip, this story brings to life...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 22, 2010 | Picture Book
George and his grandfather come back from the shopping with everything on their list and a pair of new plaid pants for Poppa. The pants are six inches too long but all the ladies in the family, Grandma Tiny, Big Mama and Aunt Viney are just too tired to hem them up...
