by Barb Langridge | Apr 27, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
This is a beautiful, heart-warming, reassuring book about a young boy, Brother, who is the last of five brothers to live on the family ranch. His father leaves to command an Army unit in Iraq and Brother begins to sort out who he is and where he is headed. Sensitively...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 24, 2009 | Picture Book
In 1994 African-American quilter Ozella McDaniel Williams gave a story to Jacqueline Tobin. It was a story that had been passed won through her family from “grandmother to mother to daughter.” This is the story of how secret codes sewn into quilts...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 23, 2009 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
“Barry and Harry Krasner are identical twins, but that’s where the resemblance stops. Barry’s more athletic, more aggressive – and he’s the one who suggests that they house-sit their great-uncle’s farm. Harry hopes that it will...
by Mike Costanzo | Apr 22, 2009 | Picture Book
This is not your ordinary farm, and these are not your ordinary cows. Farmer Brown has cows who type. These cows have demands, and they are typing them o ut and delivering them to the farmer. Thank goodness Duck is there to be the liaison between the arguing parties....
by Barb Langridge | Apr 18, 2009 | Fantasy
“In this third book in the Earthsea series, darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: The world and its wizards are losing their magic. But Ged Sparrohawk—Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord—is determined to discover the source of this devastating loss. Aided by...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 15, 2009 | Action / Adventure
“Geronimo’s adventurous sister Thea takes center stage in this super special that’s packed with mystery, adventure, and friendship! When Geronimo’s sister, Thea, is invited to teach a journalism class at a college on Mouse Island, she has no...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 14, 2009 | Action / Adventure
“The much-loved classic tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of doing his spring-cleaning, he discovers a whole new world. As well as adventures on the river and in the Wild Wood, there are high jinks on the open road...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 12, 2009 | Action / Adventure
“First composed as a play in 1904 and subsequently as a novel in 1911, James Matthew Barrie’s “Peter Pan” is one of the greatest fantasy tales ever written. Inspired by Barrie’s friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family, the story concerns its titular...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 12, 2009 | Fantasy
“WHEN YOUNG TENAR is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away — home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she is...
