by Barb Langridge | Mar 29, 2024 | Picture Book
A field mouse summons its inner strength in The Walk of the Field Mouse, a timeless picture book about taking on life’s many obstacles by award-winning creators Nadine Robert and Valerio Vidali. One morning, out for one of its usual walks, a field mouse discovers...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 29, 2024 | Historical Fiction
From #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants author Ann Brashares and her brother Ben Brashares comes an action-packed middle grade alternate history thriller that asks what it would be like to wake up in present-day America if Germany had won...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 29, 2024 | Picture Book
Welcome to the quickest bedtime story ever! Your little one will be asleep in seconds. But wait! There are a couple of things you must do first: Have you warmed up your reading voice? And plumped the pillows? What about the teddy bears? Have you organized them yet?...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 29, 2024 | Action / Adventure
December, 1961 Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city overnight, separating Berlin into West and East — with Marta’s home on the Communist Bloc-controlled eastern side. January, 1989 Now a spray-painted concrete...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 29, 2024 | Action / Adventure
Artem lives in the sleepy city of Stalingrad, which has mostly been cut off from war with Nazi Germany―until the summer of 1942. That July, martial law is declared as the Nazis begin their unprecedented march toward the city. Artem’s older brother is a soldier in...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 29, 2024 | Action / Adventure
26 April 1986 01:18 Alina & Lev are two siblings living in Pripyat, one of the Soviet Union’s proud nuclear cities. Both are asleep in their beds. Their cousin, Yuri, is a custodian at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where he’s fiercely attacking a...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 29, 2024 | Historical Fiction
Narrated by twelve-year-old Cato, this intense and evocative story of racial unrest in prewar North Carolina ends with a dramatic match between white and Black little league teams. 1935. Twelve-year-old Cato wants nothing more than to play baseball, perfect his pitch,...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 28, 2024 | Historical Fiction
Witness the chilling rise of Hitler’s Germany through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy in this first book in the action-packed middle grade series Web of the Spider for fans of I Survived and A Night Divided. 1929, Heroldsberg, Germany. Rolf might only be twelve...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 28, 2024 | Fantasy
The instant New York Times bestseller Britannia meets The Mist―with a touch of Evil Dead―in this illusory fantasy horror about a kingdom left to darkness… Jude Maddox knows nothing of love or even light. He knows only his grim duty as the Hand of Death, to lead the...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 28, 2024 | Fantasy
The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in What the River Knows, Isabel Ibañez’s lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt and filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race. Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering...
