by Mike Costanzo | Mar 28, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Twelve-year-old couch potato Ryan has just agreed to go on a kayaking, camping trip with his brother, Tanner. Ryan isn’t in to all this stuff like Tanner is but it is a short trip and Dad is waiting at the end to collect them so off they go. But it won’t...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 28, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Shawn is a boy and Keeper is his dog and they are great friends. Shawn decides he’s going to take Keeper to school for show and tell so he starts to teach him some tricks. The day comes for Keeper to go to school. Things don’t go exactly how Shawn planned....
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 28, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Colton’s parents have split and his rodeo cowboy dad has gone off with a rodeo queen. Colt and his mom and his Maine Coon cat, Smoke, are trying a new life in California. Colt is trying to adjust but one night when he lets Smoke out, the cat does not return....
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 28, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Papa and Pedro have gone to the market to find a burro to help them pull things and carry things. But will they find the burro or will the burro find them? This is a delightful, fun story that may help children ask the questions about people who live in different...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 28, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
This time Owen, now age 8, has seen plastic vomit and poop in a catalog and decided he can’t live without them. His problem is that he has no money. Now he has to figure out how to earn the money. He tries teaching a workshop on the wonders of the toilet but...
