by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Fiction
Natalie Babbitt has a great talent for writing a children’s book that reaches deeply into our hearts and shines a light on our questions and our yearnings. Meet Egan who dares to climb Kneeknock Rise where the great and powerful moaning begins. He goes in search...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Nia is a black student on scholarship at the exclusive prep school, Endicott Academy. Her only friend is Marcus, who disappears without explanation from the school. Nia goes back home and gets a good look at her friends and the paths they are choosing. One is working...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Science Fiction
Nita is being chased by bullies on her way home from school when she dives into the library for sanctuary. There she spies a book she’s never noticed before: So You Want to Be a Wizard. Nita takes it home and finds it is a manual for doing spells. Her quest for...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Action / Adventure
No one really pays that much attention to children, and no one expects them to be doing anything very important. That is exactly what the creators of the Cherubs are counting on. They’ve brought a group of children to a “school” in London where they...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Picture Book
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Norm is grinding up meat in his parents store. It’s a chore he needs to finish before he can go to the fireworks tonight, but in an instant his whole life changes as he catches his own arm in the meat grinder. What kind of a life lies ahead now that he only has...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Mystery
Nothing is hard for her older sister, who can walk into their new school and make friends and be popular in one day, but it takes Hero a while to make new friends and feel comfortable in a new place. When her new neighbor takes an interest in her, Hero really likes...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Picture Book
Now, we all know the wonderful old fairy tale of the Princess who lies on a stack of thick mattresses, but can still feel the pea down at the very bottom, thereby proving she is indeed a princess. But, wait one minute. Has anyone every thought about that pea? Where...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Off the beaten path, the Sleepytime Motel is starting to lose its place in the world. The owner, Aggie, has decided to put her motel up for sale, because she just can’t handle it all alone since her husband passed away. But you never know what life will bring to...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Mystery
Oh goodness! Father stands falsely accused and has been taken off to jail. So, Mother and the three children must leave their home in London and take up life in the country, whereupon they begin the task of rescuing Father from this injustice. Get out the tissue...
