by Mike Costanzo | Dec 2, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Eddie’s grandmother throws Eddie a ninth birthday party in their backyard. The theme is knights. A man dressed in a knight costume comes to deliver a present from Eddie’s grandmother. The present is piano lessons and Eddie is not thrilled. All the kids end up taking...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 2, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
School is canceled and the kids are on their way to the Bailey City stables to help Liza take care of the horse she’s been riding. She is limping because she hurt her ankle the day before. She tells them that a unicorn with a sleigh helped her. They don’t believe...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 2, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
A new football coach is coming to Bailey School. The kids are discussing who it will be when Liza’s book bag strap breaks. The kids see a black motorcycle coming straight towards them! The motorcycle rider is dressed entirely in black. Liza tosses the football in the...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 2, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The third graders go to Camp Lone Wolf for three days for a district wide track meet. They hope to beat the Sheldon Sharks. They are worried about seeing Mr. Jenkins again (who they think is a werewolf). They meet Miss Waterford, who looks like a model or a princess...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 2, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The kids take a field trip to Ruby Mountain. Ranger Lily takes them on a hike, after she leaves they meet up with Mr. Squash who teaches them square dancing. Mr. Squash is very big and hairy. Eddie suspects that Mr. Squash is really bigfoot (especially after Eddie...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 2, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The kids get to go to Jewel’s Pizza Castle for being reading wizards. The pizza castle is very old looking and even has a drawbridge. George, the owner, is old looking and has trouble with a finicky cook. The pizza they eat is fantastic, although George refuses to let...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 2, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Melody makes snow angels, which Eddie almost tramples. Melody tells Eddie that everyone has a guardian angel. Eddie points out that the new crossing guard needs one so she won’t get run over by a car while she is painting new crosswalk stripes. She is wearing a bright...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 2, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Liza, Eddie, Melody, and Howie (the Bailey School kids) are to have their eyes examined at school. The Ophthalmologist is a very tall man with shoulders wide enough to fit two large potted plants on. When the kids first met him he was wearing green and red plaid...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 2, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Coach Ellison has gone on a cruise and left Coach Tuttle to help them beat the Sheldon Shooters. Coach Tuttle has jet black hair, cut in a straight line over his eyebrows. A fat bandage is stuck over his suntanned nose. He also has a bandage on his right hand and a...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 2, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Eddie, Melody, Liza, and Howie (the Bailey School kids) must do a report on England so they go to the Bailey City library. Eddie complains until he sees the huge fish tank behind the librarians’ counter. Little fish swim around a castle with one huge goldfish named...
