by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
So what does a guy do when his parents divorce when he’s young and then the nurturing that he needs just isn’t there for him anymore. Well, this sensitive young man writes a zine. It’s a great way to express oneself and along the way he meets another zine writer, a...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 23, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Edward and Meg are twins and couldn’t be more different. One is a highly competitive academic, and the other goes to an alternative school. You have to be careful when you decide to lead people astray…perhaps not tell the entire truth…until pretty...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 23, 2009 | Historical Fiction
How do guys get along with each other? Brothers? Dad and son? What was it like on the home front during World War II? What was it like to have a brother flying B-17s in the war? It’s one tale after another of the father and son who are left on the home front....
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 23, 2009 | Sports
I read this book years ago, and it has really stayed with me as a powerful story of boys finding their way into manhood through the world of baseball. It’s a year-by-year diary of Bull, as he makes his way through high school and the baseball seasons. For...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 23, 2009 | Action / Adventure
If you change the past, what will change in the future? Johnny and friends find themselves time-traveled back to WWII in the exact town where they have grown up. Will they be able to undo the past and stop the town from blowing up? Filled with action, adventure,...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 23, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
If you’re eleven years old, and your cancer has come back, what difference can a cow make? If you’re Toby, and you intend to never set foot in a hospital again, a cow and a tough, independent 90-year-old named Cow, can make all the difference in the world....
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 23, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
It’s the first day of school and when Gabe gets home he certainly didn’t expect to find his uncle dead on the floor. Gabe has gone from foster home to foster home, and for the past two and a half years, he’s truly had a place he could call home with...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 23, 2009 | Action / Adventure
Prosper and Bo are brothers who have fled to Venice to stay together. They end up living by their wits, as they are being pursued by a detective who has been hired by their aunt to find them. This is reminiscent of the Baker Street Irregulars perhaps, with a sense of...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 23, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Ten-year-old Moon Blake has been living in the wilds with his father for years. He knows how to build a fire without matches and how to make his own bow and arrow out of sticks and sinew. When his father dies, Moon plans to survive on his own and do what his father...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 23, 2009 | Science Fiction
The Earth’s sun is dying, and Kate’s astrophysicist Grandfather has gone to try to save it. Kate will join the quest in a magical, powerful story of light and love. Light versus dark. The Ancient One and The Merlin Effect are the remaining two books in...
