by Barb Langridge | Jul 26, 2022 | Historical Fiction
Told in a brilliant blend of prose and graphic novel, this unforgettable middle grade story about a Japanese American family during World War II is written and illustrated by Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature winner Matt Faulkner. Manzanar is nothing like...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 26, 2022 | Fantasy
Magic and mystery abound when a young girl discovers a secret, parallel New York City that may help her find her missing brother in this dazzling middle grade fantasy adventure for fans of Thirteen Witches and James Riley. Could lessons in magic make everything right...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 26, 2022 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
From critically acclaimed author Barbara Dee comes a middle grade novel about a young girl who channels her anxiety about the climate crisis into rallying her community to save a local river. Twelve-year-old Haven Jacobs can’t stop thinking about the climate crisis....
by Barb Langridge | Jul 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Keywords: fantasy, mystical beings, friends, friendship, action, Janelle McCurdy
by Barb Langridge | Jul 26, 2022 | Fantasy
Hailed by Newbery winner Kelly Barnhill as “stunning, moving, and marvelously strange,” this tale of a young girl who stumbles into a magical realm ruled by a wicked witch is a haunting and ultimately uplifting middle grade novel about grief, family, and decades-old...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 26, 2022 | Non-Fiction
Emmy Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Maria Hinojosa has created a brand-new, unique version of her adult memoir, which was an NPR Best Book of 2020, for young readers, blending her story with perspectives on history in the vein of Jason Reynolds’s Stamped....
by Barb Langridge | Jul 26, 2022 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
In the eighth installment of the exciting Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly graphic novel chapter book series, Ruskin and his friends travel to a distant island. Ruskin, Cinder, Groth, and Roke join the entire Dragon Kingdom on a trip to the Shattered Shore to say goodbye to...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 26, 2022 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
The treehouse court is now in session in this first book in the Judge Kim and the Kids’ Court Level 3 Ready-to-Read Graphics series about a young judge who presides over conflict of all sizes in her neighborhood! When bicycles go missing at Fairville Elementary...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 26, 2022 | Fiction
Meet a poodle who can doodle oodles and oodles of noodles in this hilarious Level 1 Ready-to-Read by bestselling and award-winning author Alethea Kontis! Do you doodle? I do doodle! Does your poodle doodle? My poodle doodles oodles. Kids and adults will love reading...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 26, 2022 | Picture Book
Not All Princesses Dress in Pink meets Herstory in this inspiring and educational picture book about princesses, past and present, as three girls wonder what it would be like to be princesses themselves. If you were a princess, what would you be? Maybe you’d fight for...
