by Barb Langridge | Jan 26, 2010 | Picture Book
Marie Torres Cimarusti and illus by Stephanie Peterson 978-0525422167 When Spring begins look who is ready to play peekabook? Lift the cabbage flap and see who is hiding there! “Crunch, crunch crunch munches the bunny. Robins, butterflies, watering cans, a...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 26, 2010 | Fiction
To be released on Feb. 23, 2010: Just where exactly is “home?” A delightful little mouse named Celeste is about to have a few life lessons in exactly that. She lives under the floor boards of the dining room of a plantation house in the American South when...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 26, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Eight-year-old Moon Shadow comes from China to join his father, whom he has never met, in San Francisco in 1903. A tragic event forces them to leave the security of Chinatown, after which they experience the devastation of the 1906 earthquake. Even this catastrophe,...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 26, 2010 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
Jonathan’s family is on a camping trip on a remote northern California island when his mother injures her ankle. The 12-year-old reassures his parents he and his 6-year-old disabled sister will be fine while they are away seeking treatment for her injury. However,...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 26, 2010 | Fiction
Franny and Jennie were not only neighbors, they were best friends–until each of their families moved. Franny is now living in a rustic cabin (as in no television) in Loma Prieta, somewhere between San Jose and Santa Cruz and, after five years of being apart,...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 25, 2010 | Picture Book
“In July 2007 a rare baseball card was sold at auction for almost three million dollars. The player on the card was…the most famous shortstop baseball has ever known. His name was Honus Wagner. This is his story.” Honus Wagner played baseball in an...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 25, 2010 | Action / Adventure
Theo has only been allowed out of Empire Hall for thirty minutes a year on his birthday. The rest of the time he spends in his room reading old books about mythological creatures and drinking hot water. His guardian, Mr. Saint, is the leader of the Society of Good...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 25, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Heroes are the exciting adventurers in the “penny dreadfuls” that 8-year old Henry Travis and his good friend, Ching, love to share. Henry’s father is an ordinary banker and Ching’s father serves as his houseboy. Neither man seems to live the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 25, 2010 | Fiction
Once upon a time there was a farmer who lived in a village in Mexico where nothing ever happened. Every day was just the same as the one before it. He ate the same two corn cakes every day and he saw the same house every day. He wanted something exciting to happen....
by Barb Langridge | Jan 25, 2010 | Historical Fiction
His father just doesn’t understand so 13-year old Jacob steps out of his home in early in the morning and walks into the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Suddenly the earth is moving below his feet, buildings are collapsing and chaos is taking charge. Jacob and...
