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...
by Barb Langridge | May 23, 2009 | Fiction
“George Orwell’s famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which “all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”–from the publisher “Animal Farm is Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution — an account of the...
by Barb Langridge | May 22, 2009 | Picture Book
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one hundred percent.” Lazy Mayzie the bird has an egg in her nest and all she wants to do is fly south for a fabulous vacation. She talks Horton the Elephant into sitting on the...
by Barb Langridge | May 22, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
From the publisher: Billy has long dreamt of owning not one, but two dogs. So when he’s finally able to save up enough money for two pups to call his own—Old Dan and Little Ann—he’s ecstatic. It’s true that times are tough, but together they’ll roam the hills of the...
by Barb Langridge | May 22, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
” Buddy Boyle lives with his parents and younger brother in a small house on a half-acre of land in undesirable Seaville, New York. Skye Pennington spends her summers on the opposite end of town on five acres with a view of the ocean. Buddy’s dad is a police...
