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The difficult star of the reality television show, "Expedition Survival," disappears on location in the Florida Everglades, where they were filming animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, and Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him, but they must avoid Tuna's gun-happy father.

In a small Florida mining town in 1966, twelve-year-old Dewey faces one worst-day-ever after another, but comes to know that the issues he faces about bullies, girls, race, and identity are part of the adult world, as well.

Draws from newspaper articles, political cartoons, election-related documents, and Web sites to provide an indictment of the 2000 presidential election, and support for the author's contention that Al Gore, and not George W. Bush, really won the contest.

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.

Although Arly Poole seems bound to follow in his father's footsteps as a field worker in Jailtown, Florida, where his family lives in 1927 in the shadow of a cruel boss, his world suddenly seems larger when a schoolteacher comes to town.

Chronicles the colonial history of Florida through archival photographs, period maps, and first-person accounts from explorers, Native Americans, missionaries, government officials, and others, covering a period that ranges from Ponce de Leon's first landfall in 1513 to Florida's acquisition by the United States in 1821.

In 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts' eyes are opened to the harsh realities of racism when tragedy strikes her family while on vacation in Florida.

Seventeen-year-old Chlo?, who inherited her uncle's beloved Harley after his death, spends the subsequent year trying to pass chemistry, wondering whether she should look for her birth parents, and beginning an unlikely relationship with her chemistry tutor, while also trying to figure out how she really feels about the boy who has been her best friend since they were children.

When five elderly African-American widows die, Floridian Billy Manchester has no doubts -- he believes they were murdered for the insurance money. With the help of his buddy Max, a retired Philadelphia cop, they begin their investigation.