by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2024 | Historical Fiction
A sharp-witted teenage thief leads a team of skilled misfits in a dangerous and daring heist for fortune, freedom and revenge against a corrupt Pope in Renaissance Italy in Caitlin Schneiderhan’s clever YA debut, Medici Heist. Welcome to Florence, 1517, a world...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2024 | Picture Book
heartening tale of finding one’s voice—and summoning the courage to raise it. —Kirkus Reviews The morning before Diez y Seis de Septiembre, Gloria’s Papa wakes up with laryngitis. A disaster! The festivities cannot start without a loud grito to kick the party...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
This dazzling YA cli-fi written in prose and verse will speak to any reader struggling with the state of our world and how to understand their place in it. “In outer space, no one will know me as the girl with the dead sister.” Seventeen-year-old...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Being twins means having a best friend forever . . . But when one goes to middle school in Mexico and the other across the border in California, can that bond withstand the distance? Luis Fernando is staying local in Mexicali, Mexico, while Luisa Teresa crosses the...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2024 | Picture Book
In this rhyming picture book about the life cycle of a pumpkin, a pumpkin becomes something new with each turn of the page, from a flower to a house to a face. Extensive back matter on the pumpkin life cycle, fun pumpkin facts, and a pumpkin seed recipe are included....
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
New school, new country, but only half a family?! Embark on a coming of age journey with a middle school teen navigating their parent’s divorce while moving to a new country in this stunning graphic novel. Ave thought moving to Kansas would be boring and flat after...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Ty and Burger have known each other since before they could walk. But this shared history is nothing compared to their plans for the future: step one, make a killer documentary about humanity’s recent brush with extinction; step two, apply to film school together;...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2024 | Picture Book
A poignant story about a displaced family making a home in the aftermath of war. We used to live in a big city. In our apartment window was a star-shaped lamp, shining through the cold. I could recognize home from far away. But then the war began, and we left for...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2024 | Science Fiction
The author of the New York Times bestselling horror phenomenon She Is a Haunting is back with a novel about the monsters that swim beneath us . . . and live within us. Since the hurricane, the town of Mercy, Louisiana has been overtaken by a strange red algae bloom....
by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2024 | Non-Fiction
“Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she’s not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories.”-Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards Part...
