by Barb Langridge | Mar 23, 2009 | Science Fiction
The Earth’s sun is dying, and Kate’s astrophysicist Grandfather has gone to try to save it. Kate will join the quest in a magical, powerful story of light and love. Light versus dark. The Ancient One and The Merlin Effect are the remaining two books in...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 23, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Through a series of interviews, we get an understanding of the three characters in this novel, their lives and their experiences, separately and together, leading up to a school shooting. How does a young man come to the day when he is willing to pick up a gun and...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 15, 2009 | Action / Adventure
“Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 12, 2009 | Picture Book
Written in prose instead of the trademark Seuss-rhyme, this story is set in feudal times in the Kingdom of Didd when a king ruled the land and had great power over his subjects. One day King Derwin, the mighty ruler of the land, is riding through the marketplace in...
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...
