by Barb Langridge | Apr 13, 2023 | Picture Book
#1 New York Times best-selling author Ryan T. Higgins celebrates the joys of winter in this bite-sized Little Bruce Book perfect for fans of the Mother Bruce board books. It’s wintertime in Soggy Hollow and the mice are doing all their favorite outdoor things, like...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 13, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
This is the fourth book in the Astrid the Astronaut chapter book series about a young girl determined to be the first hard-of-hearing astronaut in space! When Astrid and the rest of the Shooting Stars find out that their teacher, Ms. Ruiz, is about to celebrate a big...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 13, 2023 | Fantasy
Brimming with danger and magic, this new fantasy adventure from acclaimed author MarcyKate Connolly will leave readers breathless as Aria discovers the strength of her courage―and the power of friendship. Aria is raised by the Wind. She grew up in a castle, floating...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 13, 2023 | Non-Fiction
From the author of Lailah’s Lunchbox and Unsettled comes a powerful picture book biography about Maryam Faruqi, the founder of the Happy Home Schools, which provided education to thousands of girls across Pakistan at a time when girls weren’t encouraged to go to...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 12, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Haylah dreams of being a stand-up star, but when her friends thrust her into the spotlight, she’s not confident a plus-sized girl like her belongs onstage. Haylah Swinton is pretty confident she’s mastered making light of every...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2023 | Non-Fiction
In this timely follow-up to the best-selling, genre-defining Young, Gifted and Black, you can meet 52 more Black icons from around the world – this time spanning even more countries and including inspiring figures from as far back as the 1500s right up to present-day...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
From the beloved author of Posted comes the story of Zeke Stahls–a thoroughly-average twelve-year-old who somehow finds himself in a competition to be named the World’s Greatest Kid. Zeke Stahls is not the best kid in the world. Some days he struggles just...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2023 | Picture Book
The true story of how Indigenous girls at a Canadian residential school sewed secret pockets into their dresses to hide food and survive Mary was four years old when she was first taken away to the Lejac Indian Residential School. It was far away from her home and...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2023 | Picture Book
An ingenious account of the jobs people do all through the night, when kids are fast asleep. In Night in the City, author and illustrator Julie Downing cleverly uses multiple panels to follow eight people throughout the course of their busy evening, from waking up...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2023 | Picture Book
From Georgia’s first Black Senator Raphael Warnock comes an inspiring picture book about finding your dreams and making your mark in the world. Before Raphael Warnock became a pastor and the first Black senator from Georgia, he was a little boy whose father told...
