by Mike Costanzo | Mar 23, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
If you’re eleven years old, and your cancer has come back, what difference can a cow make? If you’re Toby, and you intend to never set foot in a hospital again, a cow and a tough, independent 90-year-old named Cow, can make all the difference in the world....
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 23, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
It’s the first day of school and when Gabe gets home he certainly didn’t expect to find his uncle dead on the floor. Gabe has gone from foster home to foster home, and for the past two and a half years, he’s truly had a place he could call home with...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 23, 2009 | Action / Adventure
Prosper and Bo are brothers who have fled to Venice to stay together. They end up living by their wits, as they are being pursued by a detective who has been hired by their aunt to find them. This is reminiscent of the Baker Street Irregulars perhaps, with a sense of...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 23, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Ten-year-old Moon Blake has been living in the wilds with his father for years. He knows how to build a fire without matches and how to make his own bow and arrow out of sticks and sinew. When his father dies, Moon plans to survive on his own and do what his father...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 23, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Through a series of interviews, we get an understanding of the three characters in this novel, their lives and their experiences, separately and together, leading up to a school shooting. How does a young man come to the day when he is willing to pick up a gun and...
