by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Historical Fiction
India Moody is twelve years old when the Civil War comes to the Shenandoah Valley. She’s excited by the glamour, but day-by-day and battle-by-battle, she will lose nearly everything she loves. She needs to hold on to her defiance and her determination to be the...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Mystery
Ingrid Levin Hill is up against another mystery and trying to protect her beloved grandfather. At the age of thirteen she has discovered a body in the snow. What’s going on in this town? Ingrid is a devotee of the great Sherlock Holmes and in his tradition, she...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Mystery
Can someone come back from the dead? It all starts with a torn photograph, tucked in a Nancy Drew mystery, that 13-year-old Ali finds, as she is digging through a box of old books from her grandmother’s house. It’s a picture of her mother, her aunt and...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Fantasy
It begins as a normal day in the San Francisco area with Josh Newman working in the bookstore with Nick Fleming, and Josh’s twin sister, Sophie, working across the street in a coffeehouse. Then, suddenly the world explodes as some dark characters enter the...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Non-Fiction
It seems there are a million basic skills that boys need to learn and here is a handbook on how to do them all. The skills range from tying a tie, How to dribble a basketball, and how to fly a helicopter to how to shake off a tail, how to speak in code and how to be...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Picture Book
It took two special people to create this very special book: Jonathan London, who treasures our natural world and wants us to learn to live with it, and Barbara Firth, who came from England to a Vermont sheep farm and gives us the dramatic illustrations of the dark...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Historical Fiction
It’s 1377 in a bleak town in England, and young Crispin’s mother has just died, leaving him alone in the world with nothing but a hovel and a friendship with the town priest. Quickly though those two possessions are dispatched through some dark intrigue....
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Historical Fiction
It’s 1812 out in the pioneer territory of Ohio, and you can almost smell the Native American who is chained upstairs in the loft, accused of murder. The two sisters who are tasked with caring for this Indian while he awaits trial, are wary and fearful of what he...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Historical Fiction
It’s 1854 in Westfields, Massachusetts, a town filled with two kinds of people – Yankees and Irish. Traditionally, the Irish children have gone to their own schools. Traditionally the Irish have attended church in the front room of someone’s home....
