by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Sports
Troy White can predict what’s going to happen next in a football game. His single mom gets a job with the Atlanta Falcons, and Troy tries to tell the team that he can help them win games. At his own games, Troy is never allowed to play, and he is forced to wait...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Picture Book
Turn the pages and wander through magical world after magical world in search of hidden objects. This is great for children who love to find things on the page. Can you find the dinosaur bone? How about Aladdin’s Lamp? How about a bottle-cap knight? Additional...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Twelve-year-old Grady Flood is used to moving from place to place with his mom, but now their car has broken down, and they are faced with nowhere to live and no way to move on. Mom gets a job as a cook for a crusty old man, who brings them into his world. He has a...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Twelve-year-old Heidi has grown up with two mothers. There is her real mother, who is challenged and not fully capable of taking care of her own daughter, and there is Bernadette, who loves them both and mothers them both. Bernadette is challenged in her own way by...
by Dawn | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Twelve-year-old Jamie Dexter is the daughter of the Colonel. Her father lives and breathes honor, duty and sacrifice until his son, T.J., enlists in the Army and ships out to Vietnam. Jamie sees the war through the eye of her brother’s camera and slowly her...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Historical Fiction
Twelve-year-old Kenny is about to experience the horror of slavery first-hand. He and his family move to a new home in Rhode Island, and there Kenny finds himself traveling back in time to the world of Caleb, a teen-aged slave who has been murdered and who still...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Twelve-year-old Maggie is headed to spend the summer in a rented cottage with her father, her stepmother and their new baby. She finds herself in a world where her father is seething with anger and perhaps despair. His marriage is coming apart, he has lost his job,...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Sports
Twelve-year-old Molly Parker is a pretty good basketball player. She’s also a big fan of the Boston Celtics. But Molly has a secret. She’s pretty sure her real father is none other than Josh Cameron, the MVP of the Boston Celtics himself. But how can Molly...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 24, 2009 | Historical Fiction
Twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan, his sister, Natalie, and his parents have just moved into their new home and their new lives on Alcatraz Island. Dad has a new job working for the prison, and Moose has a new job trying to make a place for himself and coping with...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Winner of the 1981 Newbery Medal Twins, Caroline and Sarah Louise (Wheeze) grow up in a small fishing town on the Chesapeake Bay back in the 1940’s. For Caroline everything seems to come easily. She is musically gifted with a beautiful voice, which gives her...
