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Copper Sun

Sharon M. Draper

Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to

Hoot

Carl Hiaasen

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.

Hoot

Carl Hiaasen

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.

Amaryllis

Craig Crist-Evans

Jimmy and his older brother Frank share a love of surfing and their problems with a drunken father, until Frank turns eighteen and goes to Vietnam.

Space

Jesse Lee Kercheval

In this perceptive narrative, the author artfully describes growing up in Cape Canaveral during the 1960s and '70s and the impact of the era's social and political issues on her family.

Tangerine

Edward Bloor

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

Jumping Off to Freedom

Anilu Bernardo

Courage and desperation lead fifteen-year-old David and his father to flee Cuba's repressive regime and seek freedom by taking to the sea on a raft headed for Miami.

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Florida

Allan Carpenter

An introduction to the history, geography, natural resources, people, and places of interest of the Sunshine State.

917.59
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Old South

John Osborne

History and information about the states of the Old South: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina.

917.3
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