by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Twelve-year old Lidie is about to leave her beloved horse and everything she knows in Brazil to go to New York to join her father and older brother. It’s been years since they were together and they really don’t know each other anymore. Lidie is having to...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Action / Adventure
Orphaned Ray “Fleming” holds the lodestone his father gave to him before he left and allows the stone to lead him. This time the stone has directed him south and dropped him into a Medicine Show with a cast of amazing characters. But, Ray has...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Fourteen-year old Finn has a plan for the summer and it involves connecting with as few human beings as possible. But life is about to open doors for him in the form of the 24-year old Johanna who is caretaking the house next door. She sees great potential in Finn and...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
What is it like to move to a new house, a new school, and to try to make new friends? Well, for Ellie, it’s pretty hard. They don’t even get her name right and then someone invents new kid Bingo at school and it seems it just can’t get any worse....
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Fiction
“Sometimes a people needs an angel and sometimes an angel needs a people.” So speaks the angel who is caring so tenderly if a bit clumsily for the people of this village in Switerland. There is a vibrant young girl named Zola who routinely appears before...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Action / Adventure
Pete and his friends, Inna, Vicky and Aaron are living on a pirate ship called the Sea Rat. They’re in pirate school and their teacher is a pirate named Rotten Tooth who mostly makes them clean the decks and doesn’t ever teach them anything about being...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Where did Mother Goose or Frau Gosen come from? Learn the history that you probably never knew and then start turning the pages and enjoying the whimsically illustrated collection of nursery rhymes. “Mary, Mary, quite contrary” is a bunny who may be...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
A beautiful and very special baby girl is born to a slave couple who had feared they would never have children. This baby is so beautiful she will “be the envy of all who” see her and she will “grow up to be a princess who would bring peace, freedom,...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
This is a simple potty training book for little boys. What makes this one special is that you can push a button on the front of the book to make the “flush” sound. It’s fun and the idea seems to be to de-sensitize kids to the loud noise of the toilet...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
This is a simple potty training book for little girls; What makes this one special is that you can push a button on the front of the book to make the “flush” sound. It’s fun and the idea seems to be to de-sensitize young children to the loud noise of...
