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2) Hoot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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.
4) Scat
Author
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.
5) Chomp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to findhim while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
6) Flush
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Miranium's summer is going down hill fast: her best friend, Thomas, has moved away, her know-it-all nemesis, Tamika, has moved too near for comfort, her parents are stressed since her father has lost his job, she has just blown up the microwave with an ill advised experiment (destroying her own cellphone in the process), and worst of all her beloved cat, Sir Fig Newton, has developed diabetes; there is no money for his medical care,...
Author
Series
Melonhead books volume 6
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While visiting his grandparents' retirement community in Florida, ten-year-old Adam "Melonhead" Melon, accompanied by his best friend Sam, invents the Alligator Distractor.
11) The wyrm king
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon and 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.
12) A giant problem
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.
13) Sunny side up
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sunny Lewin is sent to live with her grandfather for the summer in Florida, where she befriends Buzz, a boy completely obsessed with comic books, and faces the secret behind why she is in Florida in the first place.
15) Treasure tracks
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
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.
16) Paper towns
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
Author
Publisher
RH Graphic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adam says he can't remember where he was for the two months he went missing in a Florida swamp. That's not true. He does remember. The truth: He was driving with his parents, and the car crashed when his father swerved to avoid colliding with a giant Sasquatch-like creature standing in the highway. Haunted by his parents' disappearance and hounded for claiming to have seen Bigfoot, Adam sets off into the deadly wilderness on a hunt for answers as...
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Lou Patterson reconnects with her neighbor and ex-best friend Sam Alvarez, now seniors in high school, after they rediscover their childhood bucket list.
Luisa (Lou) Patterson grew up across the street from Sam Alvarez in the small, quirky town of Port Coral. Then middle school-- and an most embarrassing serenade-- happened, and Lou and Sam haven't talked in four years. Now it's the summer before their senior year. Lou is retaking...
Author
Series
Merci Suarez volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Merci Suaarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be...
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