by Barb Langridge | Sep 8, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
A father, a friend, and a favorite book help a teen boy understand love and loss in this moving and vivid YA novel in verse. Have you ever encountered a book that KO’d you, Iron Mike Tyson style? One that hit you square in the face and heart like some abracadabra...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 8, 2024 | Picture Book
Calling upon only the BRAVEST detectives with the STRONGEST noses—do you dare to scratch ‘n’ sniff and help solve this foul mystery?! There’s been a robbery at the Museum of Very Bad Smells! Somebody stole the world-famous rotten egg . . . and everybody is...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 8, 2024 | Picture Book
A little ghost with big dreams learns to define success on his own terms in a spookily satisfying story for our times from Lenny Wen. Everything in the meadow, from hugging the trees to stargazing with friends, fills Wolfgang with joy. His ambition, though, is to...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 8, 2024 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
The Walter Award Honor–winning author of Root Magic returns with a terrifying story in the Southern Gothic tradition, inspired by the hoodoo practice of hair burning. At night, Roddie still dreams of sitting at his mother’s feet while she braids his Afro down. But...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 8, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Hannah must choose the impossible—put her nephews into foster care so she can stay true to her dream, or take them on and lose everything she’s worked so hard to achieve. 17-year-old Hannah Lynn has just one goal: to get out of Evans Beach, Maine. It’s where she lost...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 8, 2024 | Picture Book
From debut author Allen R. Wells and New York Times bestselling illustrator Shamar Knight-Justice comes a tender and heartwarming picture book about a boy affected by housing insecurity who learns the power of expressing his feelings through music. When Danté and his...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 8, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Eugene Guterman’s junior year in high school is off to a rocky start. No love life, no new theater production, and if his mother has her way, no more of his favorite comfort food—donuts. Eugene would just as soon spend the year playing small, but that’s hard to...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 7, 2024 | Action / Adventure
The Disaster Squad is ready to save the day in this action-packed early chapter book series perfect for fans of the Magic Tree House series, or for kids who aren’t quite ready to read I Survived! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic’s...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 7, 2024 | Picture Book
A NEW YORK TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER! I scream! You scream! Pete screams for ice cream! The Just Chillin’ ice cream truck is coming today and Pete the Cat can’t wait. He runs as fast as he can to find the truck. It’s getting late, but his friends need his...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 7, 2024 | Non-Fiction
From the campfire to the digital rumor mill, urban legends have flourished wherever we tell stories. Whether once true, sprouted from half remembered facts or entirely fictional, we have scrutinized these legends for centuries. This book will ferry you across a river...
