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1) Zora and me
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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.
5) Tangerine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
6) Rainmaker
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It's 1939 and a town in Florida which hasn't seen rain in months, places its hope in a 67-year-old rainmaker from Mississippi who claims she can coax rain from the sky.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Author
Series
Santa Paws series volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Santa Paws and the Callahan family are spending Christmas on a sunny Florida island. While the family tries to enjoy their vacation, Santa Paws is hard at work saving the day.
11) The goose's gold
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1999]
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.
12) Manatee blues
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
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.
Author
Series
Animal ark volume 22
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While her father, a Navy Chief, is on ship duty for six months, nine-year-old Piper stays busy with new neighbors, Christmas at a spaceship beach house, a trip to New Orleans, and especially the upcoming Gypsy Club pet show.
19) In her shoes
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Free-wheeling irresponsible Maggie gets through her life thanks to her remarkable looks and her complete lack of scruples. She constantly goes to her straight-laced, plain-Jane successful lawyer sister Rose when she is in need of financial help. The two sisters have been very close to each other in part because their troubled mother died when they were girls. Maggie discovers hidden letters that reveal she and Rose have a grandmother, but Maggie ends...
20) Coming up Cuban
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"From Pura Belpré Honoree and Emmy-award winning actor Sonia Manzano--best known as "Maria" from Sesame Street--comes the expansive and timeless story of four children who must carve out a path for themselves in the wake of Fidel Castro's rise to power. Fifteen-time Emmy Award winner and Pura Belpre honoree Sonia Manzano examines the impact of the 1959 Cuban Revolution on four children from very different walks of life. In the wake of a new regime...
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