by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Fiction
Ruby Raccoon wants to bake a cake, but she doesn’t know how.Her friends come to help her.Each brings a different ingredient, and I mean a DIFFERENT ingredient! 32 pages Ages 4-7
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Non-Fiction
This is the second book about this amazing friendship between a baby hippo and a giant tortoise.This time Mzee has a crack in his shell and has to be separated from Owen.If you make a new friend, can you still be friends with an old friend?
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Non-Fiction
What is a fighter plane? Do they carry bombs? Missiles? What do fighter pilots wear? This is a wonderfully simple yet highly informative book about those powerful planes and the heroes who pilot them.
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Non-Fiction
Meet the red-eyed tree frog.He wakes up just when everyone else is going to bed.He’s hungry so he goes to look for something good to eat.What will it be?Fabulous photos and text to satisfy wonderfully curious minds.When Nic Bishop does the photographs, don’t miss it....
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Non-Fiction
This is a great series of books for kids who are fascinated by snakes. You get up close pictures so you can be safely near a snake just by reading the book. How do copperheads hunt? What do they eat? Which snake has bitten the most people in the U.S.? He also did...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
This is the powerful story of a young brother and sister who flee Nigeria when their mother is brutally murdered. They go to England and get into foster care. Life is a struggle, but they are determined to find their father. They have each other and courage and...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Fiction
So, you know that brother that bugs you all the time? Well, how would you feel if you wished he’d turn into a pig…and he did. Yup. To add to the family troubles, Dad disappeared seven years ago and no one knows why or where. Now Louise needs to figure out how to undo...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Fiction
Dad has left the family, and Ruby and her brother, Pete, ache to have him back in their lives. Ruby fantasizes that he’s off on a CIA or an FBI mission, and that’s why he has disappeared. Through a school project, Ruby makes friends with two misfits and does some...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
What a poignant, powerful story about peer pressure.Jericho and his cousin Josh are excited to belong to an elite group, “The Warriors of Distinction.”They are going to be faced with a lot of choices and questions about their values.How much will they go along...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Young Thaddeus Steward watches Rob come into school and move into the alpha dog role, pushing out Lane the reigning king. Some people have it, and some people don’t, and peer pressure and fitting in are so important to teens. Then Rob makes the school nerd, Simon...
