by Barb Langridge | Mar 7, 2009 | Fantasy
Uprooted once again, the little people journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood. “As irresistible as its predecessors.”–Booklist Keywords: fantasy, action/adventure, tiny people, part of a series, 8 year old, 9 year old,...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 6, 2009 | Fantasy
Pod, Homily, and Arrietty escape from the Platters’ attic and set off to an old rectory to begin life anew. —from the publisher 304 pages 978-0152047313 Ages 8-11 Keywords: fantasy, action/adventure, family life, classic, 8 year...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 5, 2009 | Fantasy
“Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll’s putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 28, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Winner of the 1994 Coretta Scott King Author Award Terminal cancer. Fourteen-year-old Emily and her mother, Diane, have gotten the bad news that Ola, Diane’s mother and Emily’s grandmother has a diagnosis of terminal cancer and she doesn’t want to...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 15, 2009 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
The stirring prequel to the award-winning, bestselling BONE series! When a terrifying dragon attacks the small towns of the Northern Valley, a young Princess Rose (known later as Gran’ma Ben) must defeat it. The beast is actually the ancient evil, the Lord of...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 10, 2008 | Mystery
She lived on a farm with her pet dog . it was close to thanksgiving they were going to cook the turkey early this year. OH NO where is the turkey!!! “We can not have thanksgiving without a turkey” said nancy drew. Her friends and her searched for the turkey. No...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 1, 2008 | Fantasy
For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 1, 2008 | Humor
Just when they thought they were out, it pulls them back in! Our heroes beat the Bionic Booger Boy but they forgot about those rascally Robo-Boogers,. Join George, Harold, Mr. Krupp, Melvin Sneedly and Sulu the Bionic Hamster on an adventure that will take them into...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 2, 2008 | Humor
George and Harold have really done it this time…they’ve created a MONSTER! She’s faster, smarter, and more evil than anything the world has seen before–she’s Wedgie Woman! With the help of her horrible robots and her horrendous hairdo,...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 1, 2008 | Humor
Dav Pilkey’s newest epic novel finds George, Harold, and everyone’s favorite superhero in the stickiest situation yet. This time, the boys’ latest prank has snotty school brainiac Melvin Sneedley in a stink. And when Melvin tries to transform himself...
