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2) The yearling
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
3) Blown away!
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1935 on the Florida Key of Matacumbe, thirteen-year-old Jake makes new friends during an idyllic summer, only to have everything change when a hurricane threatens the island.
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
As giants start waking up and destroying everything around their Florida neighborhood, Nick, Laurie, Jules, and Cindy work frantically to find a solution.
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas's life is turned upside-down when his father remarries and moves him and his new family to Florida; but when an expedition to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie, Nick, his brother Julian, and step-sister Laurie have to figure out a way to stop a horde of rampaging giants.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Humans are responsible for the extinction of animal species and other changes to our planet. Sometimes these changes are caused by the most insignificant-seeming decisions. When the residents of your small Florida town allowed some Burmese pythons to go free into the Everglades, they didn't consider that unlike in their natural habitats, here in the United States, these snakes have no natural predators and limited prey. Your safe suburban town is...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Fin drags his reluctant father on a diving hunt for a missing treasure, hoping that finding the family legacy will help his ailing Abuelo.
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Ruth Rose and her friends, vacationing in Florida, discover that her grandmother is about to invest in a project to recover sunken treasure, they stumble upon evidence that the entire plan may be a fraud.
11) Horse thief
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1938, with the help of a doctor and her elderly, horse-thieving father, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo and finds a family in the process.
12) Manatee blues
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 4
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Brenna, Maggie, and Zoe go to Florida to visit a manatee rescue center, where they learn about these endangered marine mammals.
13) Flush
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
14) Hoot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old boy arranges a housesitting job for the summer, but he starts acting strangely after his family moves in, and his sister begins to suspect they are not supposed to be there.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the first day of vacation thirteen-year-old Davey Tsering wakes up early, slips out of his family's hotel room without telling anyone, and heads for the beach and a swim in the warm Floridian waters--and a fateful meeting with a shark.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While in Florida to celebrate her Grammy's birthday, nine-and-a-half-year-old Sassy worries that an approaching hurricane will ruin not only the party, but a nest of sea turtle eggs, as well. Includes facts about hurricanes and sea turtles.
18) The wyrm king
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nick,Julie, Laurie, and their friends try to prevent a hydra from destroying Florida.
19) Scat
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
20) Manatee summer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something special--and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect! As Peter joins the fight to save Florida manatees, he also finds himself taking care of his ailing grandfather and facing an unwelcome...
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