by Barb Langridge | Feb 1, 2022 | Fantasy
New York Times bestselling author Natasha Ngan delivers a stunningly beautiful, heartbreaking finale to the epic Girls of Paper and Fire series. “Don’t struggle, Lei-zhi. It’s time to take you back to the Hidden Palace. You’re going...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 1, 2022 | Fiction
Echo Brown testifies to the disappointments and triumphs of a Black first-generation college student in this fearless exploration of the first year experience. There are many watchers and they are always white. That’s the first thing Echo notices as she settles into...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 1, 2022 | Historical Fiction
A heartwarming story about three siblings, evacuated from London to live in the countryside, looking for a permanent home–and a new meaning for family. A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year It is 1940 and William, 12, Edmund, 11, and Anna, 9,...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 1, 2022 | Fantasy
In the sixth book of the Jeanie & Genie series, something is off with Willow’s wish granting, which could spell big problems for Jeanie and Willow. Willow Davis is a genie. And, as a genie, she grants only the most sincere wishes. But something strange is going...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 1, 2022 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
A tuba player without a tuba and his jellyfish-imitating sister cope with their father’s disappearance in this hilarious and moving novel by the author of The Mortification of Fovea Munson. When Lenny Volpe, former quarterback of the worst professional football...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 1, 2022 | Picture Book
What will I do if I don’t have you? Are you still mine? Our hands around a cup of hot chocolate, sweet and warm. Our boots splashing in puddles. The song you sing to me when the sun comes up. This is how we say “I love you” every day. But what happens when the person...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 1, 2022 | Non-Fiction
This inspiring picture-book biography about Nancy Pelosi shows her journey from the child of Baltimore’s mayor to her marble-ceiling-shattering four terms as Speaker of the House, including the historic events of January 6th, 2021. Nancy Pelosi grew up watching...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 1, 2022 | Picture Book
Sometimes I Am Furious is a hilarious and reassuring story about how tough it can be being – and having– a toddler, from bestselling duo Timothy Knapman and Joe Berger. Life is all fun and games when everything’s going your way. But some days, suddenly,...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 1, 2022 | Humor
See how everyone needs a friend now and then in this delightful Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read from award-winning author and illustrator, Jonathan Fenske. Pill Bug rolls alone. Pill Bug does not need anybody. And Pill Bug likes it that way, until he finds himself in a...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 31, 2022 | Non-Fiction
A powerful biography in poems about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance—with an afterword by the curator of the Art & Artifacts Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Augusta Savage was arguably the most...
