by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Humor
Fred and Anthony have life goals and those goals involve eating Pez and a lot of Chex Mix and getting other people to do their work for them. Their lives are made miserable by Mr. Bomzie, their fourth-grade history teacher, who is constantly assigning historical...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Freshman year of high school brings a lot of changes and challenges to the life of Scott Hudson. You expect the girl problems and the problems with friends, but now his mother is expecting a baby? Scott begins to write to the baby to tell it everything it will need to...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Gecko, Terence and Arjay are three teen-aged boys who have been handpicked by Douglas Healy for a new kind of halfway house. Terence is pretty hardcore, Arjay is in juvenile detention because of an accident, and Gecko needs to learn to stand up for himself and stop...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Mystery
George and Kate are going to the Whittaker Magnet School. Everyday the students there take another standardized test. The school is a stifling world and a strange world. There is a woman on staff who only speaks in nursery rhymes. Now, the President’s wife is...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Georgina, her little brother, Toby, and her mom are living in a car. After their dad left, money became tight, and all they can manage is to live in a car. Georgina feels she’s losing everything including her best friend, Luanne. If only they could get enough...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Humor
Gerald Morris has written a series of books for older readers all about the Knights of the Round Table. They are a delightful mixture of adventure and humor. This series combines the same two ingredients, but this time it’s written for fluent readers –...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Picture Book
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Poetry
Get ready for a good time. Even if you don’t like “poetry,” you’re going to like this. The ogre is just too disgusting, and the pictures are wonderful. Perfect for children who want to say “Oh, Gross!”
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Historical Fiction
Get ready for a powerful and moving tale of a young slave girl who finds the courage inside herself to escape from the farm where her family once lived in slavery together. This is a chance to experience the journey – the perilous journey- along the Underground...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Gloria meets one problem after another as she makes her way through life, and in this book, she’ll take on six of them. The problems range from jealousy and friendship to a ruined valentine. When you have good adults in your life, they can give you just what you...