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An exploration of Florida, showing its most famous sights, including the Florida Keys, Everglades National Park, Kennedy Space Center, Orlando, and more.

Kwan Wilson, seventeen, was a basketball star until he crashed his car, killing his mother and paralyzing himself from the waist down, and now, while living with his grandmother in Delray Beach, Florida, he gets an internship at a genetics laboratory where shark stem cells are being tested on rats to cure cancer and spinal injuries, and cannot resist injecting himself.

Eighth-grader Chase Clark gets the chance to play on the varsity team with his best friend, Tripp, at their small-town Florida school, but when a hard hit takes Tripp down Chase is the only one who knows what really happened, and telling could have serious consequences.

Chronicles the events surrounding the unnamed hurricane of 1928, which took the lives of 2,500 Florida men, women, and children and was one of the deadliest storms on record.

Short-tempered environmentalist Twilly Spree, having sought retaliation against litterer Palmer Stoat by loading Stoat's Range Rover with a horde of hungry dung beetles, realizes he has hit the jackpot when he discovers Stoat is one of the movers and shakers in a plan to build a mall on a pristine Gulf Coast island.

A fictional narrative in which Fran Benedetto, a woman who was abused by her husband, examines the reasons why she stayed in her marriage for so long, and ponders whether leaving was the right thing to do.

Emmet finds himself in grave danger when Dr. Catalyst creates a beast specifically designed to hunt and destroy him.

Describes Florida's history, geography, government, people, and economy and includes tips on traveling in the state, a time line, the state song, and several project ideas.

"Two boys race to get an undercover alien back to her mothership while dodging an oddball group of UFO-chasers, TV newspeople, and Florida retirees"--Provided by publisher.

Ruth loves going on vacation with her brother, Sammy, to their grandparents home in Florida, and one of her favorite parts is practicing her Yiddish, a Jewish language full of fun words.