by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Picture Book
Can you hunch your shoulders like a buffalo? Can you stretch your neck like a flamingo? A wonderful book to act out with a wiggly two-year-old. Colorful, simple illustrations. I love using this book for storytime with little ones because they get to interact with the...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Cap, short for Capricorn, is a 13-year-old boy when he has his run in with the law. The offense? Driving without a license. But Cap has been driving for years. He has been living with his grandmother on a farm – think hippie commune- and has had little contact...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Cara Landry is the new girl at Denton Elementary School, and she cannot believe what she sees as she watches her teacher. Mr. Larson does not teach. He just sits in the classroom reading his paper and pays no attention to the students. Cara wants to learn, so she...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Carlie, Harvey and Thomas J. are foster children. Harvey’s father ran over him with the car. Thomas J. just appeared out of nowhere as a toddler. Carlie has trouble with stepfathers. Their lives have been out of control, but will they forever be pinballs,...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Picture Book
Cary loves to visit the library. One day while she’s there, she pretends to herself that she is the librarian and imagines a day when animals and birds can come to the library, too. So the animals come. The lion and the elephant, the canary and the cow…...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Picture Book
Celia and her mother live in a cottage in the country. One day mother becomes ill and the only thing that can save her is a taste of the sweet water of her childhood. Accompanied by the ever-complaining dog, Brumble, Celia sets forth to get the sweet water. Along the...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Poetry
Charles R. Smith Jr. brings the dynamic determination and excellence of these twelve male basketball players alive in his rap-inspired poetry. So, who are you most like? Is it Alan Iverson or Chris Webber? The book rings with power. The book has a twin, Hoop...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Mystery
Charles Stavros holds onto that red bag and never lets it out of his sight. Kevin watches him and, day by day, becomes more convinced there is a bomb in that bag. Mr. Stavros with his dark hair, dark eyes and moustache looks like a terrorist intent on blowing up...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Humor
Charley Maplewood is about to turn the big one-oh. He’s never been much of a party animal but for this major milestone in life he decides he’s going to have a party. Now having a party means making friends and right now Charley doesn’t have any...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Action / Adventure
Charlie Ashanti returns home to find his scientist parents have been kidnapped. Charlie astutely discerns the danger he himself might be in and makes his escape before he too can be captured. Who is after them and why? As Charlie tucks himself away on a ship floating...
