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.
With the support of her two best friends, high school senior Holly tries to deal with the murder of her brother and her anger at God for allowing the crime to happen.
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.
Discusses the novel, "The Yearling, " including the life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Baskin, the book's history and impact, its plot, characters, and literary criticism.
The novelist discusses her childhood in Cocoa, Florida in the late 1960s and early 1970s when America was riding the Space Race's tide of optimism, but the author's family found life on Earth often overwhelming.
A pictorial introduction to Florida, providing information about its early history, land, and resources, with a look at notable people, places, and events in the state.
When their owner plans to sell one of them in 1802, twelve-year-old Sally and her family run away from their Georgia plantation to look for both freedom from slavery and a home in Florida with the Seminole Indians.
