by Barb Langridge | Dec 10, 2009 | Picture Book
When we meet Louie, he is a small pig who loves to draw. The problem is he loves to draw in the wrong places and on the wrong things. He gets tossed out of school after school but he just keeps on drawing. Then, one day he is discovered by a very special lady who sees...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 10, 2009 | Fiction
With the Fiend on the loose, Tom needs to sharpen his wits and his skills if he is to survive… let alone defeat the forces against him. To that end, Mr. Gregory send Tom out to be apprenticed temporarily by another Spook, Bill Arkwright. Arkwright is a former...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 10, 2009 | Fiction
Tom Ward has been an apprentice spook for over a year now and in that time he has battled against seemingly insurmountable odds to defeat the forces of the dark. But when an old apprentice-turned-priest of Mr. Gregory’s arrives at the house in Chipenden, that...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 10, 2009 | Fiction
As a spook’s apprentice Tom Ward has dealt with death and the dark, but in this third novel the lesson gets a little too close to home. The time has come for Tom and Mr. Gregory to move to the winter house in Anglezarke Moor. There Tom meets the infamous Meg,...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 10, 2009 | Fiction
Less than six months have passed since Tom Ward became apprenticed as a Spook and in that time he has dealt with numerous agents of the dark. As the story begins, Mr. Gregory’s estranged brother, a priest, has died after a vicious attack by a malevolent spirit....
by Barb Langridge | Dec 9, 2009 | Fiction
Thomas Ward always knew he was different. He could see things that others could not. As the seventh son of a seventh, Tom has a unique destiny and is apprenticed to the local spook, Mr. Gregory. There he must learn to deal with ghosts and boggarts, witches and more....
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 8, 2009 | Mystery
Click!Jennifer “The Camera” Jansen has just captured you with her amazing photographic memory.With her best friend Eric, the average day quickly turns into a mystery.When the adults won’t listen, they must use Cam’s amazing memory to save the day.Will they find the...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 8, 2009 | Picture Book
One morning a someone puts a wonderful chocolate chicken in the bird bath. Ruby declares that she and Max are going to hunt for Easter eggs and whoever finds the most eggs, wins the chicken! Ruby finds all kinds of eggs. Max finds acorns. Will it be Ruby’s...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 8, 2009 | Mystery
Traitorous flyers are appearing all over the city threatening the life of the King. Now, flyers aren’t uncommon in our day and age, but set in these early days, flyers are unheard of. Clearly there is something mysterious at foot and Mangus the Magician is the...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 8, 2009 | Fiction
This is a wonderful lift-the-flap board book by the amazing Simms Taback. There is a different animal on each page done as a cut out in the cardboard so you see the shape of the animal before you lift the flap. But, when you lift the flap to take a peek, there is the...