by Barb Langridge | Feb 19, 2010 | Picture Book
Usually Sunny is chipper or chirpy but not today. Today she has lost something terrible. She has lost her smile. She looks everywhere. Mom says when something is lost in the house you can usually find it in the sofa or pockets or Mr. Honeycomb’s basket. Sunny is...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 19, 2010 | Picture Book
Miss Malarkey wakes up with a temperature of 103.2 and she has to call Principal Wiggins to tell him to get a substitute teacher for her class. Then, she starts to think about the different subs he might call. She hopes it isn’t Mr. Doberman-too scary or Mrs....
by Barb Langridge | Feb 18, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Nine-year-old Hannah, a blind girl living in the West in 1887, has never been to school. When a new teacher comes, she convinces Hannah’s mother to allow her to attend. At first, everything goes wrong, but Hannah does not give up. She shows that “poor...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 18, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Lu Yi and his father discover an orphaned giant panda cub, and care for it on their farm. After they discover the reason the panda was there in the first place–there is a shortage of bamboo (the only food pandas eat) in the mountains where they live–Lu Yi...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 18, 2010 | Fiction
Fourth-grader Jenny yearns for recognition. When her class is assigned to pretend to be a mouse and write a letter to a pen pal with a second-grader, Jenny struggles. Even worse Jenny is disappointed when her classmates start to receive letters in return and her own...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 18, 2010 | Fiction
In this companion novel to Ruthie’s Gift, Mallie is annoyed because she and her identical twin sister, Hallie, are treated like exact copies of each other. Her efforts to convince everyone around her that she is an individual take her to some unsual places and...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 18, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Eight-year-old Ruthie is an “only:” the only sister in a family with six brothers, and the only third-grader in her one-room schoolhouse. She is not happy with either situation, and she is also unable to be “ladylike” even though it would...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 18, 2010 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
George O’Connor is a Greek mythology buff and a classic superhero comics fan, and he’s out to remind us how much our pantheon of superheroes (Superman, Batman, the X-Men, etc) owes to mankind’s ORIGINAL superheroes: the Greek pantheon. In OLYMPIANS,...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 17, 2010 | Fiction
The tales of the Sisters Grimm continue as the Grimm family, accompanied by Mr. Canis (aka. the Big Bad Wolf) and the former sheriff Hampstead (aka. one of the three little pigs), travel to New York City to the land of Fairie to get Puck the medical care he needs. For...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 17, 2010 | Fiction
The Problem Child continues where Usual Suspects leaves off… with Sabrina and Puck appearing in a strange place. As it turns out, the two have arrived at Ferryport Landing Asylum where Little Red Riding Hood and the Jabberwocky are holding Sabrina and...
