by Mike Costanzo | Nov 12, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
At fifteen, Tony Laporte is what many people would call a thoroughly spoiled kid. He gets away with a lot because his parents want him to have all the things they never had. But when they surprise him by refusing to let him keep a stray dog he has found, Tony decides...
by Mike Costanzo | Nov 12, 2009 | Historical Fiction
“I WANTED TO SERVE, TO BE PART OF THIS THING MY FATHER HAD GIVEN HIS LIFE FOR. I DIDN’T WANT THE WAR TO END, AND ALL I’D BE ABLE TO SAY WAS, NO I DIDN’T SERVE, I WAS RIGHT HERE THE WHOLE WAR, SAFE IN BAKERSFIELD.” Adam Pelko witnessed...
by Mike Costanzo | Nov 12, 2009 | Historical Fiction
It’s 1941 and the Japanese planes are streaking over Pearl Harbor. Adam knows his father is down there on the Arizona and he slips down under the barbed wire to find him. Then war finds Adam and he is about to face real danger. This is the first of a trilogy. 112...
by Mike Costanzo | Nov 12, 2009 | Fiction
Shredderman.com as just made the national news. Everyone is talking about the new cyber-superhero. Oh yeah! But now people are dying to know who is behind Shredderman.com. Reporters are snooping all over Cedar Valley. Oh no! Nolan’s parents and even his sidekick, Mr....
by Mike Costanzo | Nov 12, 2009 | Fiction
Bubba has been the bane of Nolan’s existence for five long years. So when Mr. Green asks the class to become reporters, Nolan decides he’ll write an expose- on Bubba. He doesn’t want to sign his name to it (that’d be suicicdal), so Nolan creates a secret identity for...
