by Barb Langridge | Oct 26, 2009 | Picture Book
The first graders in Mrs. Hildebrand’s class arrive for class one day and find out their teacher is gone. The principal explains that Mrs. Hildebrand is very sick and that she is going to be in the hospital. It turns out that their teacher has cancer and they...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 26, 2009 | Picture Book
It’s Career Day at Marion’s school and she can’t wait to tell what career she is going to choose when she grows up. Willis goes first and tells everyone he’s going to be a firefighter. When it’s Marion turn, she announces she is going to...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 25, 2009 | Picture Book
Sometimes you pick up a book and you read maybe three pages into it and you get that wonderful satisfied feeling and then you can’t wait to see what else is coming. This is one of those books. For every little person in the world this is a celebration of their...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 25, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
This is the sequel to I Hadn’t Meant To Tell You This. The courageous Lena has taken her younger sister, Dion, and escaped from their sexually abusive father. Lena is only thirteen years old but her grasp on what she needs to do, her determination and her...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 25, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Staggerlee has read the letter over and over again. It’s from her cousin, Trout, who visited this past summer and the two girls had found a deep connection with each other. Staggerlee, age 14, knows she naturally loves girls, not boys. But Trout was exploring...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 25, 2009 | Historical Fiction
This beautiful picture book is the story of a grandmother, a mother and a young daughter who live in the rural south during World War II. As the fathers went off to fight in the war, it was left to the women to leave the home and take the jobs the men had left behind....
by Barb Langridge | Oct 25, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Margaret and Maizon (rhymes with raisin) are best friends. Margaret looks up to Maizon who seems to know everything. She knows how to dance the latest dance and she has all the answers. But, this is a summer of change. Margaret is about to lose her father to a heart...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 25, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Margaret and Maizon (rhymes with raisin) have been best friends for forever. Now, since Maizon has come back from boarding school, a new friend, Caroline, has entered the picture. Maizon doesn’t spend as much time with Margaret anymore. More change has come to...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 25, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Lonnie C. Motion has decided to write a series of letters to his precious younger sister, Lili, to mark the Before Times. When Lonnie turns 21, he and Lili can be together again. These letters will record the memories of everything that happened before that magical...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 25, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Young lives can be challenged by incredible struggle and pain. Marie and her father are trying to deal with the pain they share after Mom abandons them. At school Marie meets Lena and learns her secret: Lena and her sister, Dion, are being “touched” by...
