by Barb Langridge | May 31, 2009 | Fiction
From the publisher: “This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children’s literature that is “just about perfect.” Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte’s...
by Barb Langridge | May 30, 2009 | Historical Fiction
“The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his...
by Barb Langridge | May 30, 2009 | Action / Adventure
“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time. This he had never experienced at Judge Miller’s down in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. With the Judge’s sons, hunting and tramping, it had been a working partnership; with the Judge’s grandsons, a sort of...
by Barb Langridge | May 28, 2009 | Historical Fiction
“Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—books of all time. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and...
by Barb Langridge | May 28, 2009 | Historical Fiction
“Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations charts the course of orphan Pip Pirrip’s life as it is transformed by a vast, mysterious inheritance. A terrifying encounter with the escaped convict Abel Magwitch in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a...
by Barb Langridge | May 27, 2009 | Picture Book
Long ago the world was filled with the wonders of Truffala Trees, Swo-mee Swans, Brown Bar-ba-loots and Humming Fishes. Our narrator, the Once-ler, is remembering them all and remembering how he saw the beauty of the Truffala Tree tufts and chopped them down to make...
by Barb Langridge | May 27, 2009 | Historical Fiction
“A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a woman’s quest for freedom. Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent...
by Barb Langridge | May 26, 2009 | Non-Fiction
In this autobiography Adeline Yen Mah describes her life growing up in China during the 1940s. Mah is blamed for her mother’s death in childbirth and when her father remarries soon after, she and her siblings are relegated to second class by their new...
by Barb Langridge | May 24, 2009 | Picture Book
Yertle the Turtle is the king of all the land that he can see. One day he realizes if he just climbs higher he’ll be able to rule over even more land and more turtles. So, he has his turtle subjects climb onto each other’s backs and build an enormous...
by Barb Langridge | May 24, 2009 | Historical Fiction
“‘Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; — the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!’ “Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events...
