by Barb Langridge | Sep 18, 2024 | Fantasy
The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the handsome vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister. It began long before my time, but...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 17, 2024 | Non-Fiction
Written as a collection of vignettes and poetry, The Unboxing of a Black Girl is a creative nonfiction reflection on Black girlhood. The debut YA title, by award-winning author Angela Shanté, is a love letter to Black girls set in New York City and serves as a...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 17, 2024 | Picture Book
While Daddy is busy wrangling a mud-happy dog, someone else is collecting lots and lots of pinecones. Helen Yoon brings back the parent-child duo from Off-Limits in a droll celebration of high enthusiasm. Daddy is a bit distracted on their autumn walk, while his...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 17, 2024 | Fantasy
Endless night befalls a sleepy seaside town, leaving it to young Madeline Tock to save her community from a threat known only as the Night Mother . . . The moon is stuck like a broken clock in the midnight sky, the sun a distant memory. No one in this quiet seaside...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 17, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
In this semi-autobiographical graphic novel from award-winning cartoonist Colleen Frakes, Norah must navigate not just her foiled dreams of blond hair but also the tangled mess her family has become. Norah is the good kid. Good at pleasing her parents and being a...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 17, 2024 | Graphic Non-Fiction
A stunning graphic novel memoir about growing up with an incarcerated parent. ” …Your dad is coming back home.” As far back as nine-year-old Jay Jay Patton can remember, her dad, Antoine has been in prison. Growing up in Buffalo, New York with her...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 17, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Former best friends become bitter rivals when one returns to lion dancing after a long absence in this vibrant and heartfelt middle grade graphic novel perfect for fans of Haikyu!! and Fence. Young Wei dreamed of being a legendary lion dancer just like his dad. With...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 17, 2024 | Picture Book
Say HOLA to a hilarious kite-flying adventure in Skeletown with everyone’s favorite Día de los Muertos-inspired characters that will lead to giggles with English and Spanish readers alike! Hold on to your hats—it’s a windy day in Skeletown! It’s the...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 17, 2024 | Picture Book
In this hilarious installment in the Spanish-forward Skeletown series, will Skully and Skelly get up to más or menos mischief? Fall is in the air in the Día de los Muertos-inspired world of Skeletown! Skully and Skelly are raking leaves and trekking to school amid...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 17, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Two disabled, queer teens find belonging in this poignant platonic love story about singing, signing, and solidarity. Sixteen-year-old Casey Kowalski dreamed of becoming a professional singer. Then the universe threw her a life-altering curveball—sudden, permanent,...
