by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Mystery
Slam! Another kid ‘accidentally’ runs into Tor Sinclair. He and his mom, Dr. Sinclair, have just moved to Snow Park, Colorado, and instantly everyone hates them. What is going on? Little by little, word of a curse gets to them. Then, a patient dies, and...
by Dawn | Jul 27, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
I picked this book up to read after hearing Alan Sitomer speak at a conference. I didn’t realize I was coming in to the last book of a trilogy. If you have readers who are captured by life on the streets and gang warfare, here is the answer. The book opens with...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Andre Anderson is a black teenager with a bright future. He loves to play basketball. He loves to hang out with his friends. He loves to laugh. Andre has skills, brains and heart. He also has a burning dream to be more than anyone thinks he can, both on the...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Theresa Anderson is smarter than anyone knows. But with the example of her superachiever older brother, Andre, towering above her and temptations of the hip-hop kulture floating everywhere, navigating her way through the dangerous maze of high school becomes a...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
‘Hey Crunch. Here comes that little rat again. Some rodents never learn.’ Bounce just wants to skate in the skate park but bully, Crunch, and his henchmen don’t want Bounce in their park. The police and security guards around town don’t want...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Whoa! This is the closest I’ve ever come to reading a book and feeling as though I was watching a movie. It’s really well done. One minute Duffy and Sumo Puggs, brothers, are at school doing the usual, and the next they find themselves sent off for a...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Historical Fiction
A lot of people know the wonderful Lois Lowry book, Number the Stars, about the people of Denmark and their struggle with the Nazis. This book has a similar theme but is written for a much younger reader. David lives in Copenhagen where his father is a baker, and his...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Annabelle is writing letters to her grandmother on the computer to teach herself how to use the keyboard. I don’t think I quite liked Annabelle when I first met her. She seemed a bit about herself, but gradually as she writes to her grandmother about all of the...
by Dawn | Jul 27, 2009 | Humor
Meet Maybelle, the cockroach, who lives with the Peabodys, their cat, Ramona, and her best friend, Henry, a flea. Now Maybelle has an adventurous spirit, and, on this day, she has decided to live the good life and taste the soup at Mrs. Peabody’s dinner party....
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Historical Fiction
Nick MacIver lives out on a Channel Island off the coast of Great Britain in 1939. His father, a lighthouse keeper, is working with other locals to monitor the presence of Nazis in their geographical area. A very self-reliant ,young twelve-year-old, Nick along with...
