by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Non-Fiction
When a snake charmer plays his flute, is the cobra really dancing to his music? What do snakes eat? What’s the smallest snake? The largest snake? How do snakes fight each other? Great snake book for a fluent reader.
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Non-Fiction
So what is it like to live in an elephant family?Did you know that an elephant can walk so quietly that they can go past you, and you’d never even hear them?Do elephants have baby-sitters?What a wonderful way to learn about elephants with a child.
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Non-Fiction
Karsten Heuer and his wife, Leanne Allison, are the only humans to ever have joined the 100,000 caribou on one of the most astonishing migrations on earth.The caribou travel thousands of miles each year to get back to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Non-Fiction
We all hear a lot about global warming and the challenges that it creates for our generation and the generations to come.How do we know about global warming and its impact on our changing climate?The answers are in this book.The Baltimore oriole is beginning to summer...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Non-Fiction
Have you ever walked on a beach early in the morning and wondered if the tracks you’re seeing in the sand belong to a dog or maybe, a fox?Have you ever wondered what the tracks of a moose look like?Would they be bigger than the tracks of a buffalo?Jim Arnosky has...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Picture Book
This is the story of a wise little mouse named Frederick who spends his summer storing up supplies of a different sort while his family and friends are storing up food for the winter. Frederick doesn’t lug any grasses into the mouse hole. Instead he sits and observed...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Oy and her family have moved from Thailand to the United States which means that Oy has one foot in her Thai culture at home and one foot in the American culture at school. Oy is trying to make friends and wants to fit in. There is a girl at school named Liliandra who...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Historical Fiction
It’s 1926 in South Carolina, and nine-year old Darby Carmichael lives happily out in the country, spending time with her friend Evette. They are careful how they spend time together, though, because Darby is white, and Evette is black, and they aren’t allowed to go...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
School is about to start again, and Robbie is figuring out how to be cool in the third grade.First of all, he needs to change his name – no more Robbie.He checks his backpack and, oh, no, his mother has bought him a “My Little Pony” ruler.Can’t have that!When he...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Cody’s teacher has decided the class should put on a talent show. Everyone else seems to have a talent except for Cody. He tries a few things, and nothing seems to work out. Then, at home, he makes his father a birthday card and begins to see how he can use his...
