by Barb Langridge | Oct 14, 2023 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Momo Gardner is the kind of friend who’s always ready to lend a helping hand. She’s introverted, sensitive, and maybe a little too trusting, but she likes to believe the best in people. PG, on the other hand, is a bit of a lone wolf, despite her reputation for being a...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 14, 2023 | Humor
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off meets Gamer Girl for middle grade in this hilarious, heartfelt story about a non-binary kid trying to figure out who they are at home, at school, and in the fandom that changed their life. All Elle Campbell wants to do is meet their...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 14, 2023 | Mystery
Publishers Weekly calls this utterly charming, deftly crafted mystery about an intrepid young girl’s quest to foil a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I “worthy of a standing ovation”. Emilia Bassano is a girl who relishes the music of words....
by Barb Langridge | Oct 14, 2023 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren’t sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country,...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 14, 2023 | Fantasy
A teen girl and her family return to her mother’s childhood home, only to discover that the house’s strange beauty may disguise a sinister past, in this contemporary gothic horror from the author of What We Harvest. The house was supposed to be a fresh...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 14, 2023 | Historical Fiction
Bridgerton fans rejoice! This epistolary confection—told in letters among three school friends—is perfect for devotees of gossipy costume drama. Tirzah, Sophia, and Polly are best friends who’ve left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. The year is...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 14, 2023 | Picture Book
A boogie-down picture book about a shy boy named Manolo who overcomes his fears and insecurities to become part of a new innovative dance style called breaking. Step back, step back! Kid Flex ’bout to bust a move. In the 1970s, many said the Bronx was just a...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 14, 2023 | Picture Book
Cook Prize-winning author Jordan Scott’s luminously-illustrated love story of a girl growing up in the shadow of a glacier that’s always there to listen. Angela listened to the glacier; the glacier listened to Angela. As soon as she’s born, Angela’s father introduces...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 14, 2023 | Picture Book
From acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck comes a clever and validating twist on parent-child dynamics. This collection of classic parental nags are cleverly betrayed by the situations shown, in which it’s made clear that the child knows better. Each scenario...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 14, 2023 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Hour of Need is a graphic novel telling the true story of the resistance to Nazi rule in Denmark during World War II and the heroes that saved the Danish Jews by helping them evacuate to Sweden. In the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, legend had it that should...