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Presents a comprehensive survey of Hurricane Andrew in the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana from August 22 to 26, 1992, and examines the death toll and damage left behind, its effect on the natural environment, how and why hurricanes develop, and more.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A girl named Cleveland Rosebud Potts has created her Paris Project List, and she thinks that if she can tick off all six items, she will finally escape her terrible small town of Sassafras, Florida, by earning a place at the high-culture and rich American School of Paris. Of course, nothing ever goes according to plan, and before the end Cleveland will have to learn how to forgive her family, be a friend, and learn to grow and prosper where she is.

Examines the case involving the rape of a Florida woman in 1957 and the fallout that followed her report that it was an African American man who attacked her. Highlights the tensions of the era along with a shocking conspiracy that hindered true justice in the case.

"America's wettest state is running out of water, Florida--with its swamps, lakes, extensive coastlines, and legions of life-giving springs--faces a drinking water crisis. Drying Up is a wake-up call and a hard look at what the future holds for those who call Florida home."--Dust jacket.

Seventeen-year-old Ritzy's carefully made summer plans are ruined when she is sent to a foster home with a cute boy next door, but when her old life catches up with her, plans and hopes collide.

"Explores the legacy of black college football, taking as its central figure one of the most successful coaches in its history, Jake Gaither. A paradoxical figure, he was leader of the most feared and respected black college football program in the country, and yet many questioned his racial loyalties during the height of the civil rights movement. . . A . . . story of black college football that complicates the heroic narrative of integration and grapples with the complexities and contradictions of one of the most important sources of pride of black life in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.