by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
When a teenage girl’s single mom is taken by ICE, everything changes—all of her hopes and dreams for the future have turned into survival. Seventeen-year-old Rania is shaken awake in her family’s apartment in Brooklyn. ICE is at the door, taking her mother away....
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Graphic Non-Fiction
In 2009, Tessa Brunton experienced the first symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome). She spent much of the next eight years unwell, in a medical holding pattern, housebound and often alone. In 2017, she found a strategy that...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Faith Navarro has landed a scholarship to an arts high school for violin. But her struggles at home threaten to take away everything she’s ever worked for. Her older sister’s drug addiction has caused Faith to miss school one too many times. Her school offers her one...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Fantasy
On the way home from a party, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her soon-to-be ex nearly run over a nude young woman standing in the middle of a tree-lined road. It’s only the first in a string of increasingly eerie events and offerings: a dead rabbit in the driveway, a...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Historical Fiction
This gut-wrenching novel set in 1969 Czechoslovakia focuses on three teens, each outside the norm and vulnerable for different reasons and each closely connected to Pavol, a boy who dies after setting himself on fire in a protest against harsh government...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
The ongoing struggles of Indigenous people in Colombia who have lost their land and lives to violent, illegal mining ventures are explored in this fictional graphic novel translated from Spanish. It follows Andrea, a young survivor determined to expose the...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Mystery
This complex, thoughtful novel from Australia scrutinizes society’s fascination with—and exploitation of—violence against women. The students at a girls school react to their classmate’s disappearance as they navigate their vulnerability in an often dangerous...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Non-Fiction
Caldecott Honor–winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page celebrate the astonishing diversity of bird species in this magnificently illustrated picture book. They can dance, sing, and, of course, fly—what’s not to love about birds? With more than 10,000 species...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
This atmospheric, unforgettable story is set in a rural Georgia town where echoes from the past ripple through the generations. It delves into a family’s unraveling and healing, a queer biracial girl’s coming-of-age, and a community’s reckoning with...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Mystery
Kitty is a superhero-in-training with feline super powers. She dreams of being just like her superhero mum one day, but she’s still got a lot to learn. Join her for a series of enchanting adventures by the light of the moon. In Kitty and the Star Stone Robber,...
