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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.
3) Paper towns
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night, dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows her. Margo's always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she's always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q; until day breaks and she vanishes.
4) Chomp
Author
Pub. Date
2012
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 find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Merci Suárez 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...
6) Flush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
7) 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.
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
9) The yearling
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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.
10) The wyrm king
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
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) Abandon
Author
Series
Abandon trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce's life upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld.
Author
Series
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
John Hayden, a death deity, takes seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera back to the Underworld against her will to keep her safe from the Furies, but her family is still at risk and she, herself, may never escape his captivity.
14) The nixie's song
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow. But an "expedition" to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie with a giant problem--the huge, lumbering, fire-breathing variety --and it's up to Nick, his stepsister Laurie, and his big brother, Julian (plus a familiar face from the original Spiderwick...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Cleveland Rosebud Potts yearns to leave Sassafras, Florida for a rich and cultured life at The American School of Paris, but problems with family, friends, and finances stand in her way.
18) Mine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Lily moves to a creepy old house in a Florida swamp and finds out that the house isn't empty: it's packed full of the previous occupants' trash, keepsakes, and, Lily begins to suspect, maybe even their ghosts"--
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After Ofelia, Aster, Cat, and Lane fail to persuade a local girls club to change an outdated tradition, they form an alternative group that shakes up their sleepy Florida town. Includes tips for beginning birders, characteristics of crystals, a cookie recipe, tips for aspiring journalists, directions for creating badges, and facts about the killing of birds for fashion.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Alice Jones and her family visit Aviles Island, where her mother disappeared long ago, and forms an unlikely friendship with Leo Mercury, who also wants to use the island's special power to contact a lost loved one.
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