by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Picture Book
Farmer Duck doesn’t seem motivated to do much work around the farm. Everyone ends up working for him. Hmmm….how will the story end? 978-0763695613 Keywords: Read aloud to 2’s, 3’s, 4’s farm, values, ducks, picture book,Toddler,...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Science Fiction
Fast forward into the future and into a world where a billionaire has found a way to stay alive to age 143. How does he do it? Why is Matt treated so differently from the others who live in the compound? Matt is a clone of El Patron the head of the family and the...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Science Fiction
Fast forward to the future, and join Puck, who feels she will never be as smart as her brilliant research scientist parents, and who is now speeding along on board a spaceship en route to joining them. Along the way Puck makes friends with an alien named Hush, and...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Fiction
Father has disappeared under questionable circumstances, and now Sappy and her brother, Conor, feel called by the sea. As they follow the pull to Ingo, they find themselves caught up in the uneasy world of the Mer people. Who can be trusted? A story of mystery,...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Fifteen -year-old Sean looks like a bad kid – one of those kids who can’t be reasoned with. They are giving him a last chance by sending him out to do community service on Mr. Hassler’s farm. Mr. Hassler is one of those special human beings who understand...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Fiction
Fifteen-year-old Jason has decided to start his own religion: “chutengodianism” is the name, and worshipping the town water tower is the game. A few friends join with him: Henry, a boy he thought he’d never understand, and Magda, a girl he begins to...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Action / Adventure
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores is faced with a tough reality when he realizes he is going to have to be the man of the family and try to cross from Mexico into the United States to save his mother, his brothers and his sisters from starvation and poverty. Unlike his...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Fifth-grader Jack Rankin has a plan. He has found the perfect bubblegum, chewed 13 pieces and stuck that enormous wad under the desk. Ha! That’ll teach him. You see, Jack’s father is the janitor in the school, and he’s going to have to clean that gum...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Humor
Fifth-grader Trip Dinkleman hates to read, but he finds himself helping a parent volunteer set up the school book fair. In the process of opening a crate, Trip is hit on the head by some heavy books. While unconscious, he finds himself traveling through a story of...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Fifth-grader, Dave Packer can’t take it anymore. That Lynsey Burgess just never stops talking, and she really doesn’t have anything to say anyway. Dave and Lynsey agree to hold a contest,-,boys against the girls. No one can say more than three words at a...
