by Barb Langridge | Oct 26, 2022 | Non-Fiction
How to Feed Backyard Birds: A Step-by-Step Guide for Kids is the perfect resource for beginners who are young (and not so young) to discover the joy of attracting birds to your yard. Bird lover and expert Chris Earley wants to share his passion for our colorful...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 26, 2022 | Non-Fiction
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, or online—the ways to play a video game are endless and varied, just like the jobs and skills it takes to make a video game. It’s so much more than just coding! Award-winning video game developer Denis Galanin dives deep into...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 25, 2022 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Ivy and Bean go searching for treasure in Book 12—the final story in the New York Times bestselling early chapter book series! It’s Career Day at Emerson Elementary School, and all the students have to choose what they want to be when they grow up. No problem....
by Barb Langridge | Oct 25, 2022 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Watch out, you diabolical masterminds! There’s a new detective on Pancake Court: Bean! She laughs at danger! She solves even the most mysterious mysteries! What? There aren’t any mysteries? Then Bean and her assistant, Ivy, will make some!—from the...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 25, 2022 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Bean’s older sister is going to Girl Power 4-Ever Camp, where she will do Crafts and Music and First Aid and other secret things that Bean will never know about because girls have to be eleven to go to Girl Power 4-Ever Camp. Wait a second! Bean and Ivy can make...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 25, 2022 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
It is the Science Fair, and the second grade is all over it! Some kids are making man-eating robots. Some kids are holding their breath for a very, very long time. Some kids are doing interesting things with vacuum cleaners. The theme, obviously, is global warming....
by Barb Langridge | Oct 25, 2022 | Humor
Knight-in-training Tim and his best friend, Belinda, embark on a quest to save Princess Grace in this second book in the hilarious, highly illustrated Once Upon a Tim middle grade series from New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs. Prince Ruprecht is VERY...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 25, 2022 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Drew never meant for her doodle Mike to steal the centuries-old hat. She didn’t mean for Levi to steal the centuries-old baby (when he was supposed to be returning the coveted hat!). And she definitely didn’t mean to send the Art Institute of Chicago into a downward...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 24, 2022 | Picture Book
Sometimes we are confronted with situations that are so incomprehensible that we don’t know what to say – and that is our response. “I don’t know what to say.” So imagine what it is like for our children when they find themselves in the...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 24, 2022 | Mystery
Enter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk. Sadie meets Wilder Girls in this unnerving tale about the struggle for survival, the twisted satisfaction of revenge, and the darkness hiding in all of us. From Erica Waters, the acclaimed author of Ghost Wood Song and The...
