by Mike Costanzo | Dec 1, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Mr. Dobson, the janitor, quits after Eddie and Howie smear peanut butter all over the stair railing. Mrs. Jeepers is gone and Mrs. Ewing is the third grade substitute teacher. Principal Davis tells the third grade they must clean the school until a new janitor...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 1, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Liza, Eddie, Melody, and Howie (the Bailey School kids) go to camp in the summer before third grade. The camp counselor, Mr. Jenkins, eats raw meat and is very hairy! The children become suspicious when he tells the legend of the lone wolf, has wolf books in his...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 1, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Liza, Eddie, Melody, and Howie (the Bailey School kids) get rid of their third grade teacher Mrs. Deedee after only three weeks by putting shaving cream in her desk, then get a new teacher, Mrs. Jeepers. Mrs. Jeepers has a strange accent and wears an unusual green...
by Mike Costanzo | Nov 16, 2009 | Fiction
Tom’s mother has returned from Greece with an impossible request: come to Greece and help her destroy an ancient enemy. She has assembled an army of unlikely allies, including Grimalkin ,the witch assassin, and Alice Deane, as well as neighboring spook Bill...
by Mike Costanzo | Nov 16, 2009 | Fiction
This supplemental work in The Last Apprentice series, is divided into three stories told by John Gregory, the Spook and Tom Ward’s mentor; the witch assassin, Grimalkin; and Alice Deane, a young witch who is Tom’s closest friend. Each character, in their...