An introduction to the geography, history, government, politics, economy, resources, people, and culture of Florida, including maps, charts, and a recipe.
Eleven-year-old Thomas talks his grandfather into driving all the way across Florida to meet Coco Grimes, an old man who remembers Negro League baseball, but the actual encounter proves to be bittersweet.
Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, using maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other illustrated material to highlight the land, history, and people of each individual state.
Three girls from very different backgrounds meet and become friends while adjusting to their freshman year at a Florida university and making their way through sorority recruitment together.
One Christmas Eve, Whale Harbor is visited by a man who thinks he's Jesus and claims to be looking for a game of poker. But, as usual, things are not quite what they seem. Having some version of the Lord in town for his birthday creates a strange effect on the locals: unlikely couples are breaking up and making up and making out; a luxury mobile home that belonged to an elderly couple from New Jersey (until they disappeared after a run-in with "the Lord") is won by a down-on-his-luck gambler in an unbelievable hand of poker; the area's most well-known and long-forgotten tourist attraction is rising up from a hole in the ground; and a gun no one has used in years is suddenly in hot demand. In the steamy climes of southern Florida, you take your miracles where you can get them--and if that means being led to salvation by a schizophrenic with a rap sheet, so be it.
Florida high school junior and aspiring documentary film-maker Genesis Bell's blog tells the true story of the unbelievable events that caused the breakup of her friendship with her two best friends.
