Lilly, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Marie)
Summary: Whether you're settling in for a heaping plate of banana pudding or arepas and tostones, a good meal can always bring families together. Once a year, on a Friday night, My family leaves the city And drives hours and hours . . . First my family drives through the mountains to stop at Mamaw and Papaw's house in rural West Virginia. We share blueberry jam and toast for breakfast the next morning,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Summary: When no one in the small town of Merritt, Florida, believes that he was attacked by a monster, fifteen-year-old Virgil Knox fears the monster will return to finish him off, or worse--that he is becoming a monster himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUTCabot, Meg.
Summary: A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce's life upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CABZiegler, Maddie
Summary: Twelve-year-old Harper loves to dance and is a rising star in Connecticut when her parents move her to Florida and she must prove herself to The Bunheads in order to compete.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZIEHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HIAGriffith, 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 GriffithHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: Classic Malley, to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard ... he knows his cousin's in trouble before she does. Wild Skink, he's a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HIAMiller, Jeff R.
Summary: While his mother waits for a life-saving heart transplant, eleven-year-old Graham Dodds sets out to find an endangered Snail Kite in the Florida Everglades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MILHiaasen, 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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Summary: Brenna, Maggie, and Zoe go to Florida to visit a manatee rescue center, where they learn about these endangered marine mammals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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3 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ANDKey, 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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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEYScattergood, Augusta.
Summary: Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SCADarraj, 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 DARRose, Elle Gonzalez
Summary: From debut author Elle Gonzalez Rose comes a fresh, fun contemporary rom-com about an aspiring artist who agrees to fake date one of his family's longtime enemies in the hopes of gathering intel strong enough to take down their rivals and keep the family cabin they gambled in a risky bet. Devin Bez is prepared for a relaxing winter break after his rough, first semester of art school. Sure, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joy Revolution 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROSHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: "From the groundbreaking and award-winning sister-brother team behind Babymouse comes a middle-grade, graphic-novel memoir. Following the lives of kids whose older brother's delinquent behavior has thrown their family into chaos, 'Sunny Side Up' is at once a compelling 'problem' story and a love letter to the comic books that help the protagonist make sense of her world" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 HOLHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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Summary: With the help of an eccentric ex-governor, a teenaged boy searches for his missing cousin in the Florida wilds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION HIAGreen, John
Summary: When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night, dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows her. Margo's always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she's always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q; until day breaks and she vanishes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREHodkin, Michelle.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends but, after moving from Rhode Island to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes uncovering something buried in her memory might save her family and her future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HODDiCamillo, Kate
Summary: "One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Summary: 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 for the beach and a swim in the warm Floridian waters--and a fateful meeting with a shark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC NORSnadowsky, Daria.
Summary: In her last semester at a private school in Fort Myers, Florida, seventeen-year-old Dom finds her life transformed by her first boyfriend, Wes, a track star at the public school her best friend attends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SnadoRoy, Ron
Summary: Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose head to Florida where they uncover a scam at a local space memorabilia attraction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED AZSE 12DiCamillo, Kate.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2001