The more Mila finds out what it means to be human, the more deeply she longs for her island home With a highly original narrative style to mirror its plot, this is an unusual, moving and appealing story which stays in the mind long after it ...
Copper Sun is the epic story of a young girl torn from her African village, sold into slavery, and stripped of everything she has ever known--except hope.
Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends but, after moving to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes that uncovering the buried memory might save her family and her future.
Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "river of grass," most people considered the area worthless. She brought the world's attention to the need to preserve The Everglades.
For use in schools and libraries only. Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky, but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
Hiaasen's first book for young readers--a Newbery Honor Book--involves new kids, bullies, alligators, and pint-sized owls in a hilarious Floridian adventure. Now repackaged.
He is the author of Marco Polo: To China and Back, Francisco Coronado: In Search of the Seven Cities of Gold, and Vasco Nunez de Balboa: Discoverer of the Pacific in the Great Explorations series.
Describes the fictional lives of the troubled denizens of Coconut Grove, including a career-threatened ad man, an alcholic embezzler dodging a couple of hit men, and their dysfunctional families.