by Barb Langridge | Oct 12, 2023 | Non-Fiction
An illustrated collection about animal noses and their amazing functions! Early STEM has never been more fun. Everything kids ever wanted to know about animal noses around the world! This special collection of animals takes us around the globe and amazes us at the...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 11, 2023 | Poetry
This hilarious follow-up to the New York Times bestselling poetry book I’m Just No Good at Rhyming is full of surprising twists of wit and wordplay that will have readers rolling on the floor laughing! “Highly recommended, it gets 5 stars and 8 moons and a...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 11, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
★FIVE STARRED REVIEWS★ Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, Tiger Daughter is an award-winning novel about finding your voice amidst the pressures of growing up in an immigrant home told from the perspective of a remarkable young Chinese girl. Wen Zhou is a...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 11, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, Hannah V. Sawyerr’s All the Fighting Parts is a searing and defiant young adult novel in verse about reclaiming agency after a sexual assault within the church community. Sixteen-year-old Amina Conteh has always believed in using...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 11, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
A 2023 National Book Award Finalist! A resourceful teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while his mom recovers from addiction in this striking debut novel. Ian Gray isn’t supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn’t happen...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 11, 2023 | Poetry
If your moral character is flimsy Or your wit be rather slow, Oh dare not read these tales of whimsy For often do they end in woe. Tales of Whimsy, Verses of Woe is quite possibly the most dangerous book of poetry ever written. Do you dare? It’s so good it will make...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 11, 2023 | Picture Book
Where’s Joon? is the highly anticipated sequel to Where’s Halmoni?, the bestselling, award-winning debut by Julie Kim. In this graphic novel picture book, Julie Kim beckons readers once again into a colorful, fantastical world filled with...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 11, 2023 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
The Breakfast Club meets Stranger Things in this middle grade horror novel for fans of Goosebumps! Detention turns even scarier when a group of classmates discover dangers lurking in their school. When classmates Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira are forced to come to...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 11, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
A heartwarming and hilarious story about a girl and her dog, and of kindness, friendship, hurdles, tunnels, see-saws, and—most importantly—bringing out the best in yourself and others. Annie Shearer lives in the country town of Upson Downs with her best friend, an...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 11, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
A powerful contemporary novel about an aspiring 12 year-old filmmaker whose world is turned upside down when his grandfather is slain in a senseless and racist act of violence. From the author of the award-winning memoir, Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South and...
