by Barb Langridge | Feb 2, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
From Jas Hammonds, award-winning author of We Deserve Monuments, comes an unflinching novel about addiction that Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author of Sadie and I’m the Girl, called “sensitively wrought and gorgeously written.” It’s the summer before...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 2, 2024 | Picture Book
A lyrical and charming picture book about making the most of your one precious life, from multi-talented couple Scott and Mark Hoying. Born into a world of endless skies, natural wonders, and friends waiting to be found–a mayfly, with only a single day to live, flies...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 2, 2024 | Picture Book
A child living in a Vietnamese refugee camp learns their first word in English with a little help from their teacher and grandmother in this heart-warming picture book based on the author’s childhood. Many things are different for Ánh now that they’ve left...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 2, 2024 | Non-Fiction
From award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate comes a remarkable picture book biography of William Still, known as Father of the Underground Railroad. William Still’s parents escaped slavery but had to leave two of their children behind, a tragedy that haunted...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 2, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
The Animal Rescue Friends gang is back with ten sweet tales about their furry, feathered, and flying friends! Join Bell, Maddie, Noah, and the rest of the Animal Rescue Friends as they learn to love an affectionate rat named Whiskers, find Sergio the tortoise a...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 2, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Join Pippa Park as she juggles friendships, peer pressure, crushes, and family in the sequel to the relatable drama-filled middle school book Pippa Park Raises Her Game. Perfect for fans of The Baby-Sitters Club, Ruby Lost and Found, and Kelly Yang’s Front...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 1, 2024 | Picture Book
Mo Willems, #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author-illustrator, tackles a BIG concept in this hilarious nonfiction picture book about the relationship between size and scale. Are YOU big? A simple question sends readers to the far reaches of the...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 1, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
International bestselling author Jeff Kinney serves up heaps of laughs in Hot Mess, the 19th book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Greg Heffley is caught in the middle as the two halves of his extended family come together in a sidesplittingly relatable summer...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 1, 2024 | Non-Fiction
Celebrate James Baldwin’s one-hundredth birthday anniversary with the first-ever illustrated biography of this legendary writer, orator, activist, and intellectual. Before he became a writer, James “Jimmy” Baldwin was a young boy from Harlem, New York, who loved...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 31, 2024 | Fiction
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ernest Cline comes a mostly true tall tale about an unexpected friendship between a young girl and a music-loving colony of bats. After losing her mother, thirteen-year-old Opal moves in with her uncle Roscoe on the family...
