by Barb Langridge | Apr 20, 2023 | Picture Book
Inspire a love of nature in young readers with this gorgeous, simple guide—and learn how, through millennia of transformations, life and land have always found a way to begin anew, for nature-loving fans of Kate Messner’s Over and Under series. Do you know a...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 20, 2023 | Fantasy
A thrilling fantasy adventure that explores friendship and queer identity, perfect for fans of Amari and the Night Brothers and Rick Riordan’s Trials of Apollo series! When Juniper Harvey’s family moves to the middle of nowhere in Florida, her entire life is...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 19, 2023 | Fantasy
The past never forgets . . . Before an ambush by enemy soldiers, Lord Cassia was an engineer’s apprentice on a mission entrusted by the king. But when plague sweeps over the land, leaving countless dead and devastating the kingdom, even Cas’ title cannot...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 19, 2023 | Fantasy
Winner of the 2020 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize Life in Bearmouth is one of hard labor and isolation, where daylight is a distant memory. Newt has lived in the mine since the age of four, and accepts everything from the harsh working conditions to the...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 19, 2023 | Picture Book
In this preschool tale from the world of Gossie & Friends, water-loving goslings Ruby and Rufus play on the pond come rain, sleet, snow, or shine! Ruby and Rufus play at the pond every day. They swim in the rain. They swim when it’s windy. Nothing can stop...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 19, 2023 | Picture Book
From Pura Belpré Award-winning author-illustrator Juana Medina, I WILL! helps young readers to affirm how they will act with bold, colorful illustrations and simple text. This paper-over-board picture book is the first in Medina’s I WILL! series. I will be kind...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 19, 2023 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
From New York Times bestselling, three-time Pura Belpré Award–winning author-illustrator Raúl the Third, Tacos Today follows the young luchadores on the hunt for their favorite lunch in an action-packed, graphic-novel-style El Toro & Friends paper-over-board...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 19, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
From the Coretta Scott King and Printz Honor-winning author of How It Went Down, Light It Up, and Revolution In Our Time comes a moving contemporary YA novel about the bonds between a group of teens whose lives have been upended by tragedy. Fifteen-year-old Kermit...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 18, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
You know how when you first meet someone they tell you only so much about themselves? They pretty much tell you or show you who they want you to think they are and not necessarily who they really are? It takes some time for people to decide they want to tell you...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 18, 2023 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Award-winning author Nikki Grimes’s beloved novel in verse Garvey’s Choice is now a graphic novel, imaginatively and dramatically illustrated by Little Shaq artist Theodore Taylor III. Garvey’s father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested...
