by Mike Costanzo | Dec 1, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The Bailey kids are going to Camp Lone Wolf. Howie is reading the book Creatures of the Deep. It’s a neat book about monsters that live in the water. Camp Lone Wolf has a brand new sign: Camp Lone Wolf: A Home for Every Plant and Creature. The kids hear bagpipe music...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 1, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The lights go out at Bailey Elementary and Melody is sent to the office. The temporary replacement for the secretary is Miss Kidwell. She is the tiniest woman Melody has ever seen. She is wearing along lime-green dress covered with bright orange flowers. Her jet-black...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 1, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
When the Bailey School kids go to the cafeteria, it looks like a card shop exploded in it. All sizes of red, pink, and white paper hearts were plastered to the walls, hanging from the ceiling, and even stuck onto the garbage cans. They find out the hearts were all put...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 1, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The kids are in the Bailey City Cemetery collecting leaves when they see a very tall, very skinny man carrying a huge black box. The man goes into the school building. They find he is their new band teacher, Mr. Belgrave. The band room is the old science room,...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 1, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Liza, Eddie, Melody, and Howie (the Bailey School kids) are taking gymnastics classes from Brewbaker’s Gym. Eddie is not thrilled with the idea. The new teacher is a short-haired figure dressed in black tights, black sneakers, and a black baseball cap named Miss...
