by Barb Langridge | Feb 10, 2010 | Fiction
Thirteen-year-old Sunny Skyland has been from foster home to foster home.Her father left the family before she was born and her mother and grandmother were killed in a car accident.Sunny and her twin sister, Starr, were separated the day of the funeral and Sunny has a...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 10, 2010 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
A young boy, Robin, watches in horror as his father shoots an arrow through the heart of a friend. The boy vows to grow up to save people not to kill them and in the moment of this vow, his father agrees that from that moment on he will dedicate himself to teaching...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 10, 2010 | Humor
Author I.B. Grumply needs a quiet house where he can write his next bestseller which has been twenty years in the making. He goes to Proper Properties to get help and Ms. Anita Sale sends him to 43 Old Cemetery Road. Immediately Mr. Grumply has things to grump about....
by Barb Langridge | Feb 10, 2010 | Fantasy
Surrounded by the day in and day out drudgery of life in the rice paddies and the barren Fruitless Mountain, young Minli, whose name means “quick thinking” is about to take a journey to help her parents. For years her father has spun his stories for her...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 9, 2010 | Science Fiction
“Rewrite? I knew Mrs. Halebopp was out to get me.” Mike Stellar would love to escape from his teacher but he’s shocked when he learns he and his parents are about to board a spaceship to Mars where they will set up a small colony in space....
by Barb Langridge | Feb 9, 2010 | Historical Fiction
To be released April 2010: “If she could find sixpence for the carter she could return to the village and the alehouse” where her mother, bad temper and all, was not sorry to see her go. Meggy Swann has arrived at the home of her father in London. He was expecting a...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 9, 2010 | Sports
“At fourteen, Brian was a decent enough ballplayer, good enough to be the last kid picked for All-Stars this summer from Bloomfield Hills.” But this summer holds more than being an all-star ballplayer. Brian Dudley is going to be a batboy for the Detroit...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 8, 2010 | Poetry
“Picture a place where cows graze in fields, pigs play in the snow, chickens stretch their wings in the sun, and ducks swim together happily,” reads the author’s note from Maya Gottfried. If you can picture such a place, you will have a sense of what...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 8, 2010 | Picture Book
If you have one of those children who loves to learn, this book will make both of you very happy. The illustrations are done as photographs and it begins with a young boy finding an egg while he’s out fishing in a nearby pond. As the weeks go by, a young duck...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 8, 2010 | Picture Book
Imagine the fun of picking out a puppy who will be a friend for life! The illustrations in this book are all photographs so a young listener will see a real boy surrounded by puppies and gets to make a choice. He chooses a lively little guy and decides to call him,...
