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.
On the first day of vacation, thirteen-year-old Davey Tsering wakes up early, slips out of his family's hotel room without telling anyone, and heads to the beach for a swim in the warm Floridia waters--and a fateful meeting with a shark.
Spending the summer in Florida with her stepfather's sister who operates a "meals-on-wheels" van, twelve-year-old Chlo? and her aunt become involved in a controversy surrounding the wearing of T-back bathing suits.
Blessed, or cursed, as an Oracle who cannot decipher her own predictions, Aria Morse must reply truthfully to questions asked about her best friend Jade's disappearance, and although her answers seldom make sense they make her the next target.
Various objects, animals, and people associated with the state of Florida are presented in short rhymes, with added commentary, and used to illustrate counting, multiplying, and adding.
Introduces the diverse places, animals, plants, and people of the Sunshine State, from the centuries-old homes and forts of Pensacola to the tiny Key deer that chew on mangroves on Big Pine Key.
In 1739, having escaped from slavery under the British, thirteen-year-old Jem finds himself in the custody of sharp-tongued Phaedra at Fort Mose in Spanish Florida, but his efforts to break free of Phaedra's will have surprising results.
Jules, a young man barely a century old, lives at a time when death and scarcity have been eliminated and realizes his dream of living in Disney World, but his dream quickly becomes his nightmare.
