San Miguel, Samantha
Summary: "When his asthma lands him at a health resort in the wilds of Gilded Age South Florida, twelve-year-old Algie Emsworth is over the moon. The scientific treasure trove of unexplored swamps may launch his dream career as a naturalist. But even Algie is startled when he happens upon a brand-new species and her brood in the karst springs surrounding the resort. Algie quickly realizes he must keep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SANMullarkey, Lisa
Summary: Charlie is excited to come to Storm Cliff Stables, but she is also very nervous. She has panic attacks. The other Pony Girls help her find some strategies to calm her anxiety. They get a big idea when they visit the Horse Rescue Center, but can they convince Aunt Jane to get a new farmyard friend?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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Summary: Layla and the Bots visit the Surfside Rescue Center, where they meet a dolphin named Splash, who will only eat when the music is playing, but is very picky about the music--so Layla and the Bots build a machine that uses the sound waves Splash communicates with to change the music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FANGrimes, Nikki
Summary: "Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 921 Grimes 2019Tagliaferro, Linda.
Summary: Discusses the breed, selection, and training of therapy dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Pub. Co. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.7 TAGLewis, Gill.
Summary: When a baby albino dolphin caught in old fishing netting washes ashore, Paralympics sailing hopeful Felix and English school girl Kara work with veterinarians and specialists to save and reunite the dolphin with her mother, setting off a chain of events that might just save the reef from the environmental effects of proposed dredging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWReyes, Gabrielle.
Summary: A baby dolphin found off the coast of Florida is brought to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium for help. There Sawyer and Hazel name her Hope and work to help her. Will Winter accept her as a friend, and will Hope's health improve?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC REYHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC HIAWilley, Kira
Summary: "We all want to bring more calm into our lives. We all want to feel more focused and positive. Mindfulness is the key to making it happen. Breathe like a bear guides us through fun exercises to help us relax and stretch our imaginations. Because just like we need to exercise our bodies, we need to flex our mindfulness muscles!"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Kids 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 158 WILMarkovics, Joyce L.
Summary: "In this book, young readers will learn about therapy dogs."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.7 MARBailey, Ella
Summary: "The series focused on the way our young animal friends spend a day continues with an adventurous dolphin calf, as she explores the vast Pacific ocean with her mother and meets the many wonderful water dwelling creatures that live there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAIHarrison, Paula
Summary: When Clarabel finds an injured dolphin during Ampali Island's Royal Regatta, she and her fellow Rescue Princesses vow to save the dolphin with Clarabel's special gift.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC HARFahmy, Huda
Summary: This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 FAHMessner, Kate
Summary: Describes the process of tracking Burmese pythons, an invasive species to the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.96 MESGriffith, Evan
Summary: "Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something special--and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect! As Peter joins the fight to save Florida manatees, he also finds himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction GriffithSpringer, Nancy
Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC HOLDenson, Abby
Summary: "There's just one thing Kitty Sweet Tooth loves more than going to movies, and that's eating delicious desserts. Now that Pop-Pop's movie theater has fallen on hard times, Kitty decides that only dessert can keep it from closing its doors. With a coat of paint, a tasty new menu, and a lot of hard work, Kitty and her friends transform this ramshackle theater into the Taste-O-Rama, a combination...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2021
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Summary: "In 2008, Moko the dolphin was well known at Mahia Beach on New Zealand's North Island. People loved to come and watch the playful dolphin fetch beach balls, steal boogie boards, and interact with the swimmers and beachgoers. In March of that year, two pygmy sperm whales got trapped between a sandbar and the beach and couldn't get them back to the ocean. Several concerned people were unable to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J559.53 MANDarraj, Susan Muaddi
Summary: Farah's little brother is in the hospital with a heart problem that needs surgery, so her parents send sixth-grader Farah off to stay with her grandmother in a retirement condo in Florida; Sitti Fayrouz does not speak much English, has a lot of rules, and does not understand Farah's interest in geology, so Farah is not happy with the move--but despite being the only child in the community,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DARDanticat, Edwidge
Summary: Identical twin teenagers Giselle and Isabelle Boyer have always been inseparable, and expected to stay that way even though their Haitian American parents are separating--but when the entire family is caught in a car crash, everyone's world is shattered forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DANKey, Watt
Summary: Adam says he can't remember where he was for the two months he went missing in a Florida swamp. That's not true. He does remember. The truth: He was driving with his parents, and the car crashed when his father swerved to avoid colliding with a giant Sasquatch-like creature standing in the highway. Haunted by his parents' disappearance and hounded for claiming to have seen Bigfoot, Adam sets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020
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Summary: After a concussion that effects her balance, memory, and other abilities, twelve-year-old Kat goes to I-Can, the "Miracle Clinic in the Swamp," where she joins forces with other patients to expose a plot that endangers them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MESTyndall, Nicole B.
Summary: Since her mom's cancer scare, Hadley hasn't been one for taking risks, and she definitely has no interest in dating. She is focusing on her photography and getting into the art school of her dreams. Braden, star of the swim team, is all bravado and charm and impulsivity. From their first moment together, they are perfect sparring partners, equally matched. Braden shows Hadley how to live again....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020