by Barb Langridge | May 17, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
A reserved Chinese American teen at a Southern performing arts boarding school comes into her own under the tutelage of a glamorous new piano teacher. A moving coming-of-age-novel from a debut novelist about first love, adolescent angst, and academic pressures. Claire...
by Barb Langridge | May 16, 2024 | Action / Adventure
The Spider-Man you know is one of many. Meet ten Spider-Heroes in this new short story collection from acclaimed, best-selling authors writing across the Spider-Verse. There is a Spider-Verse filled with Spider-Heroes, each on their own world: Spider-Punk, as adept at...
by Barb Langridge | May 16, 2024 | Humor
Og learns the value of teamwork in this adorable, rhyming Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read by award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Ame Dyckman and renowned illustrator Elio! Og and his new kitty cat friend Mog are building a fun project! But they are missing...
by Barb Langridge | May 16, 2024 | Fantasy
The Junior Monster Scouts take Franky’s dog to the vet in this fun Level 2 Ready-to-Read! It’s time for Sprocket’s yearly vet visit. But when Franky tries to bring his beloved pup to Dr. Frankenstein’s office for her checkup, Sprocket decides to hide…and she’s really...
by Barb Langridge | May 16, 2024 | Fiction
he Junior Monster Scouts forage for a very special ingredient in this exciting Level 2 Ready-to-Read! Vampyra’s aunts—Belladonna, Hemlock, and Moonflower—are going to cook Vampyra’s favorite dish, Cauldron Stew, but they’re missing one key ingredient: Troll Root. When...
by Barb Langridge | May 16, 2024 | Picture Book
A stunning, lyrical picture book exploration of the nuances of friendship as two best friends experience jealousy for the first time when one of them receives a beautiful gift of rainbow bangles from her mom. Selvi’s best friend in the whole world is Divya. She and...
by Barb Langridge | May 16, 2024 | Picture Book
The city is a busy place and home to many kinds of trucks in this rollicking picture book about all the trucks on the road—big, small, real and imagined! Trucky Roads sees all kinds of trucks, and when he imagines the kinds of trucks that could be, there is no...
by Barb Langridge | May 16, 2024 | Non-Fiction
Meet Lorena Ramírez, an Indigenous Rarámuri athlete from Mexico who is internationally known for winning ultramarathons in her traditional skirts and rubber sandals, in this nonfiction picture book. From the copper canyons of Mexico, her swift footsteps echo. Clip...
by Barb Langridge | May 15, 2024 | Humor
From Drew Daywalt, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Day the Crayons Quit, and illustrator Mike Lowery comes a heavily illustrated, paper-over-board middle grade novel about Sam, a noble pug who will go to any lengths to protect his family from the bad...
by Barb Langridge | May 15, 2024 | Non-Fiction
Mo Willems, #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author-illustrator, zooms in on the smallest things in the universe to explore one of life’s most elemental questions in this nonfiction picture book about the relationship between size and scale. Are YOU small?...