by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
Have you ever told your mother, “I’m starving!” Those are the words of Nora whose father is cooking some wonderful food. When he hears that Nora doesn’t want to wait to eat, he tells her a story about when he was a boy in Morocco. In the story...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
So what was that question you had about vampires, ghosts, monsters? This is the book for you. Ghost stories, photographs of ghosts and instructions for how to avoid a vampire are only a piece of what is included in this handy-dandy guide to the abnormal. Highly...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Non-Fiction
Some lucky children know the names of their backyard birds and some flowers, but how many children know the names of the butterflies they see flitting about? We’re so lucky to have the Monarchs and the Swallowtails, but are we aware of what these delicate...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Non-Fiction
These are great collections of the gross and the weird that young readers love to experience.’ Great for reluctant reader boys who delight in knowing the far out facts they can learn.”
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
One of my favorite books for young adults is Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher. That book centers on a swim team and the high school culture they boys live within. This book takes four guys, who are on a swim team, and explores their paths to manhood, as their swim team...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
I am such a fan of Chris Crutcher’s books! This one centers on Bo who is training for a triathlon. As always in Chris’ books, the characters are struggling to grow up and become men, and they are facing some pretty heavy obstacles and serious issues. This...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
This is a gritty story of a young man named Dillon Hemingway who is training for the Ironman Triathalon, as he struggles with the feelings about his brother Preston’s suicide. Those are some pretty tough feelings to deal with and along the way he finds a new...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
This is the first book ever published in ‘The Railway Series’ by Rev. W. Awdry. It came out in 1945 and began the series of 26 books that he wrote. In this book we meet the characters Edward, Gordon, Henry and Sir Topham Hatt. This is where it all began as...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Fiction
Oh, how wonderful that Franny K. Stein is not your average third grade girl! She likes her bedroom dark and spooky, and she fills it with bats and a snake house and test tubes! This kid is quite the individual, but, at school, it’s hard for Franny to make...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
Princess Peepers loves all the glasses she has to wear, even her bug glasses, and enjoys wearing them until she begins school at the Royal Academy for Perfect Princesses. They make fun of her glasses there, so, she takes off her glasses, and the fun begins. This is a...
