by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2024 | Picture Book
Kids have big feelings, but none of their feelings are too big for God. In this picture book from licensed counselor Michelle Nietert and Tama Fortner, young readers will explore what it means to feel their sadness and discover how to manage their emotions in a...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2024 | Picture Book
Kids have big feelings, but none of their feelings are too big for God. In this picture book from licensed counselor Michelle Nietert and Tama Fortner, young readers will explore what it means to feel scared and discover how to manage their emotions in a healthy way....
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2024 | Non-Fiction
A comprehensive and spirited exploration of Asian American history—its movements, cultures, and key figures—beautifully illustrated and compellingly told for readers of all ages. Co-authors Cathy Linh Che and Kyle Lucia Wu take us on a journey through stories of...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2024 | Historical Fiction
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe’s critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa’s cataclysmic encounter with...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Masato, a son of the Tendo family, is meant to marry Hojo Ran, the daughter of a baron. There’s just one problem: she’s a fake. The real Ran has fled after hearing that few make it out of the Tendo family alive. In her place is a young woman who says she will die if...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2024 | Fantasy
From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythology. In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person’s greatest sorrow. An unwanted marriage,...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 10, 2024 | Picture Book
The healing power of community is tenderly expressed in this picture book for fans of A Sick Day for Amos McGee and Last Stop on Market Street. Kindly Cecil has a broken heart, but when the kids in his neighborhood start asking him to fix their valuables—a music box,...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 9, 2024 | Fantasy
A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he never knew he needed at an HBCU for the young, Black, and magical. Enroll in this fresh fantasy debut unlike anything you’ve seen before. Ten years ago, Malik’s...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 9, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Afraid her sister (and maybe even herself) could lose sight of their Vietnamese identity, twelve-year-old Bom writes a poetic memoir to help them both remember–a love letter in verse to sisterhood and the places we leave behind. Bom can’t believe that her...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 9, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
A moving story about a young girl and her family who are forced to flee their beloved home after violence erupts all around them, and their journey to make a new sense of home. One day someone asks me, Where is home? And I don’t know what to say. Is home here or...
