by Barb Langridge | Jun 4, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Robin Gow’s Gooseberry is a moving middle-grade novel about a young nonbinary person searching for family and finding it with a sweet rescue dog. There’s a lot twelve-year-old B doesn’t know—like what their new name should be after coming out as nonbinary. Or what it...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 4, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
This much-anticipated sequel to the acclaimed fan-favorite novel Suicide Notes is a funny, touching look at what happens when you give up trying to be someone people want you to be and become exactly who you are. Jeff spent forty-five days in the psych ward of a...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 4, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
A smart, funny, and heartfelt middle grade novel about Lily Hong’s attempts to save her parents’ Chinese school and the town’s community center using all the resources she has—devoted friends, ingenuity, a passion for filmmaking, mediocre dance moves (at best), and...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 4, 2024 | Historical Fiction
Victoria loves everything about her home in Cuba. The beautiful land, the delicious food, her best friend and cousin, Jackie, and her big, loving family. But it’s 1960 in Cuba, and as the political situation grows more and more dangerous, Victoria, her parents, and...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 3, 2024 | Non-Fiction
In the second volume of the Discovering Life’s Story series by best-selling author Joy Hakim, the theory of evolution takes hold—transforming ideas about survival, extinction, and life itself. Can species change? Or go extinct? In the eighteenth century, most people...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 3, 2024 | Non-Fiction
Could your pet help you with your math homework? Discover how amazing animals use number sense in this fun and fact-filled investigation. Animals know a lot more about numbers than you might think. Guppies can tell large numbers from small ones, hyenas can count, and...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 3, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
In this charming middle grade graphic novel, orphan twins Elliot and Liza find themselves taking on a series of mysterious raven quests in order to make money and survive—only for Liza to be mortally injured during one of their adventures. Now, Elliot must team up...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 3, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
A mermaid, a firebird, and a witch become entangled with the mysterious and powerful Witch Queen, who may hold the key to each of their past in this epic middle grade fantasy by debut author Vivian Zhou. Atana’s island may be quiet and peaceful, but mostly, it’s...
by Barb Langridge | Jun 1, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Young reporter Frankie and her news crew of beloved toys learn why and how people protest as this engaging series continues. There’s breaking news on TV at Frankie’s house—a protest to demand justice! Frankie’s mama, a journalist, gets a call to cover the story, and...
by Barb Langridge | May 31, 2024 | Non-Fiction
New York Times bestselling author Andrea Beaty and neuroscientist Theanne Griffith’s Going Green! is the sixth book in The Why Files, a nonfiction early-reader series starring Ada Twist, Scientist! How can the sun power the lights in our homes? What happens to our...
