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...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 1, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The kids return to Camp Lone Wolf, where last summer they suspected Mr. Jenkins was a werewolf. Camp Lone Wolf is in ill repair and Coach Ellison is taking them there for a week-long nature trip, ending with a rowing competition against the kids from nearby Sheldon...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 1, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Liza, Eddie, Melody, and Howie (the Bailey School kids) find something in the old oak tree. They are disappointed when it turns out to be nothing more than an old bottle with nothing in it but a stinky smell. Eddie tosses the bottle into the junky yard next to the...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 1, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Liza, Eddie, Melody, and Howie (the Bailey School kids) go on a field trip to the Shelley Museum. The old museum is four stories tall and they are greeted by a grunting giant of a man named Frank, the curator’s assistant. Dr. Victor, is the curator. Liza tells them...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 1, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Eddie’s grandmother makes him take food to his sick Aunt Mathilda. Aunt Mathilda is very cranky. Howie thinks he sees a man in the attic window even though Aunt Mathilda lives alone and then the word attic is spelled out in Howie’s garlic chips. All four kids go to...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 1, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
It’s Saint Patrick’s Day and Eddie pinches Melody because she isn’t wearing green. Mrs. Jeepers doesn’t allow anything to do with leprechauns in the third grade room; she considers leprechauns worse than blood-sucking mosquitoes. Since Mrs. Jeepers and her magical...
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...
