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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In 1949 in the Florida Everglades, a ten-year-old girl called Bones, whose father is part Miccosukee Indian, tries to discover what really happened when he is accused of two murders and sent to jail.
4) Motherless
Author
Publisher
Lisa Hagan Books
Pub. Date
2015
Description
"Born in a downpour that breaks a drought, she is named Rainy. A young Native American girl, orphaned at 5, she lives with her grandfather on the sandy shores of the Florida coast. As she approaches adolescence, Rainy struggles with her love for the Earth, racism and the horrors inflicted on our natural world"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In the summer of 1956 while her mother is in Florida searching for a job, fourteen-year-old April Garnet Rose, who has never met her father, stays with her terminally ill aunt in Virginia and accompanies her as she visits different churches, looking for God.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Writing in the diary which her father gave her, thirteen-year-old Yara describes life with her family in Havana, Cuba, in 1967 as well as her experiences in Miami, Florida, after immigrating there to be reunited with some relatives while leaving others behind. Yara Garcia and her family live a middle-class life in Havana, Cuba. But in 1967, as Communist ruler Fidel Castro tightens his hold on Cuba, the Garcias, who do not share the political beliefs...
Author
Series
Animal Ark volume 22
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Mandy's been spending most of her Florida vacation at the local animal park, playing with two tame dolphins, Bob and Bing. The dolphins are happy performing together, but when Bob dies, Bing seems lonely and depressed. Mandy and her friend, Joel, worry about Bing's future. They come up with a daring plan to set him free.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"After a long career as a police officer, Moira hopes a move to a luxury retirement community will mean she can finally leave the detective work to the youngsters and focus on a quieter life. But it turns out The Homestead is far from paradise. When she discovers the body of a young woman floating in one of the pools, surrounded by thousands of dollar bills, her crime-fighting instinct kicks back in and she joins up with fellow ex-cops--and new neighbours--Philip,...
10) Wrecker
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When fifteen-year-old Valdez Jones VIII, a.k.a. Wrecker, unwittingly becomes entangled with a group of smugglers and grave robbers, he must deep dive into their shady dealings in order to escape their twisted net.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner--"The best novel ever written about running" (Runner's World)--comes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and 60s on Florida's Gold Coast. Quenton Cassidy's first foot races are with nature itself: the summer storms that sweep through his subtropical neighborhood. Shirtless, barefoot, and brown as a berry, Cassidy is a skinny, mouthy kid...
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