Key, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Rose, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Joy Revolution 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROSHutchinson, Shaun David
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUTDiCamillo, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG DICHiaasen, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC HIACabot, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CABLilly, 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,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG LILZiegler, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZIECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZIEGriffith, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction GriffithHiaasen, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HIAHiaasen, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HIADarraj, 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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DARFields, Jan
Summary: After an encounter with a fake Bigfoot, the film crew of the Internet series, Discover Cryptids, heads to the Florida swamps to search for the "Skunk Ape"--but find a crooked ranger who hates Florida panthers, instead.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an Imprint of Magic Wagon 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC FIEMiller, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MILHiaasen, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC HiaHolm, 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" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 HOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 HOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Sunny HolmCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HOLHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: With the help of an eccentric ex-governor, a teenaged boy searches for his missing cousin in the Florida wilds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HIAAnderson, Laurie Halse.
Summary: Brenna, Maggie, and Zoe go to Florida to visit a manatee rescue center, where they learn about these endangered marine mammals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ANDHodkin, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Northrop, Michael
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SnadoGreen, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRERoy, Ron
Summary: Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose head to Florida where they uncover a scam at a local space memorabilia attraction.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED AZSE 12Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ROYDiCamillo, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2001