by Barb Langridge | May 5, 2023 | Fantasy
ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART marks the launch of a new series from Stephanie Garber about love, curses, and the lengths that people will go to for happily ever after For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings . . . until...
by Barb Langridge | May 4, 2023 | Mystery
The Inheritance Games meets Ocean’s Eleven in this cinematic heist thriller where a cutthroat competition brings together the world’s best thieves and one thief is playing for the highest stakes of all: her mother’s life. At only seventeen years old, Ross Quest...
by Barb Langridge | May 4, 2023 | Picture Book
How does it feel to turn a year older? A child runs through a spectrum of emotions on the best day of the year, their birthday! A child runs through a spectrum of emotions on the best day of the year―their birthday! Early-morning excitement gives way to shyness at the...
by Barb Langridge | May 4, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
A novel in free verse about a middle schooler who discovers he’s not the only one grappling with the imperfections of the world. In this powerful novel in free verse, Felix Landon Yarrow (F.L.Y., or “Fly”), a fourteen-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, is captivated by...
by Barb Langridge | May 4, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Judy Blume meets Barbara Dee in this tender and empowering middle grade novel told in journal entries and poetry about a young writer on the verge of becoming a woman whose summer with her estranged father doesn’t turn out the way she’d hoped. Twelve-year-old Victoria...
by Barb Langridge | May 4, 2023 | Fantasy
The only good thing about Sofia’s mom sending her to live with her abuela is that finally Sofia and the sea will meet face-to-face. The sea has always called to Sofia, even when she and her mom lived in a big city nowhere near its shore. That’s how Sofia...
by Barb Langridge | May 4, 2023 | Non-Fiction
A beautiful and fascinating picture book biography that follows the lives of Robert McCloskey, creator of Make Way for Ducklings, and sculptor Nancy Schön, whose famous bronze ducks grace Boston Public Garden. In the beginning, there was a boy named Robert McCloskey,...
by Barb Langridge | May 4, 2023 | Picture Book
Join this photographic celebration of differing physical and neurological abilities from a National Geographic photographer. We have different ways to move around. Celebrating children of different abilities, this photographic book presents large, clear images of...
by Barb Langridge | May 4, 2023 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
In this graphic novel adaptation of master horror storyteller Mary Downing Hahn’s spookiest and most popular tale, two siblings must save their stepsister from the clutches of a vengeful ghost. When their mom remarries, Molly and her brother, Michael, try to...
by Barb Langridge | May 4, 2023 | Sports
From the author of the award-winning Game Changer comes a gripping novel about two student-athletes searching for stardom, a young reporter searching for the truth, and a crosstown basketball rivalry that goes too far The people of Walthorne love their basketball—and...
