by Barb Langridge | Nov 10, 2023 | Fantasy
After his pendant goes missing, semi-mer Aaron and his friends discover a family secret in this early reader based on the New York Times best-selling Emily Windsnap novels. Aaron wishes he were special like his best friends, Emily Windsnap and Shona Silkfin, but...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 10, 2023 | Historical Fiction
Winner of the Freeman Book Award for Young Adult/Middle School Literature 2024 A gripping story of a boy’s escape from Communist Vietnam by boat, based on the author’s own experience. It’s 1980, and 12-year-old Tho Pham lives with his family in South Vietnam. He...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 10, 2023 | Non-Fiction
From National Book Award–winning author Martin W. Sandler, here is a fascinating look at what shipwrecks reveal about our world’s past—and how exploring them led to the development of a whole new field of science: marine archaeology. Most of the world’s ocean floor...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 10, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
From the acclaimed author of Small Town Pride, Phil Stamper, comes a heartfelt coming-of-age middle grade novel about grief, love, loss, and finding your way forward in the vein of Kate Allen’s The Line Tender and Jules Machias’s Both Can Be True. The last few months...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 10, 2023 | Picture Book
Anansi the Spider meets Jon Klassen in this wickedly witty debut. When a suspiciously polite fox attempts to coax his next meal out of a burrow, he is met with a clever rabbit who has been cooking up a surprise for this very moment! Careful readers may spot what is in...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 10, 2023 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
In the third installment of this full-color early chapter book series, Priya plans a top-secret anniversary party and helps save manatees! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic’s early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 10, 2023 | Picture Book
Medieval math favorite Sir Cumference series is back! Lady Di of Ameter and Percilla Centwell figure out parts of a whole in this fun percent introduction. Percilla Centwell and Lady Di are off to Gaggleston-on-Green to deliver Percilla’s flock of one hundred...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 10, 2023 | Picture Book
A Bank Street Books Best Children’s Book of the Year for Family/School/Community Fiction, noted for outstanding merit (2024) Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech delivers a companion to the New York Times bestselling picture book favorite A Fine, Fine School....
by Barb Langridge | Nov 10, 2023 | Action / Adventure
Despega hacia el espacio en esta segunda aventura con Los Exploradores Secretos, una nueva serie de ficción. ¡Conoce a los exploradores secretos! Son un grupo de niños brillantes de alrededor del mundo dispuestos a solucionar problemas, resolver misterios y reunir...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 10, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
With more than 130,000 copies sold, this award-winning chapter-book series starring a spunky Japanese American heroine returns with four new standalone books set on a family vacation in Japan! Toothbrush? Check. Her special journal? Check! Eight-year-old Jasmine...
