by Barb Langridge | Jun 30, 2009 | Historical Fiction
It’s 1845 in Ireland, and Nory Ryan’s family is struggling. Dad has gone to earn the money to pay the rent on their home. The potato crop has gone bad. Nory is only a child, but she is facing the reality that everyone may die simply from lack of food. When it looks as...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 30, 2009 | Historical Fiction
1998 Newbery Honor “Worth the price to keep you safe,” is what Gran says to Lily. It’s World War II, and everyone is making sacrifices. Lily’s best friend has moved away, and her father has gone off to war. Now, Albert has come from Hungary. Slowly, Lily and Albert...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 30, 2009 | Sports
This is the sequel to Safe at Home. Elijah “Jumper” Breeze is finding himself at his new school and in his new home with his mother in Harlem. School starts, and Jumper’s best friend, Kelvin, talks him into running for student council. Then things start happening all...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 30, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Twelve-year-old Skye McPhee is about to have her world turned upside-down. Her older brother, Scott, who almost totaled the family car four months previously, has been in rehabilitation as a result of a brain injury. When Scott comes home, he is wheelchair-bound and...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 30, 2009 | Fantasy
All I can say is that she’s done it again! Thirteen years prior to the beginning of this story, a young woman, named Angela Dupre, started a job at an airline counter. On her first day, she noticed a plane parked outside a gate with no one attending to it, so she...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 30, 2009 | Fiction
Earl is planting a pumpkin, and Pearl is planting a pumpkin. Chicken really wants to help, but all she seems to do is scratch the dirt and say cluck. Earl and Pearl keep trying to shoo her away while they are watching their pumpkins grow bigger and bigger. Chicken is...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 30, 2009 | Picture Book
Oh the life of the dog-owner, but imagine being the owner of ten do Karen Beaumont gs! It’s a house full of dogs, and they are ready to go out on the town. So, ready or not, it’s off to the park to play. But wait! What’s that smell? Ten dogs – we...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 30, 2009 | Picture Book
by Barb Langridge | Jun 30, 2009 | Picture Book
