Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Florida, the Sunshine State!...enjoy the Calle Ocho Latin Street festival, explore Everglades National Park, ride roller coasters at Walt Disney World, attend the Orange Bowl, and more as they learn about Florida|s history, plants and animals, industries, sports, cities, famous people, and more in this fun, fact-filled title." -- Publisher.
2) Copper sun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Author
Series
Publisher
SportsZone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title examines the history of the Miami Dolphins, telling the story of the franchise and its top players, greatest games, and most thrilling moments. This book includes informative sidebars, high-energy photos, a timeline, a team file, and a glossary.
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Since its opening in October 1971, Walt Disney World has continued to expand and evolve as the most visited vacation resort in the world. What hasn't changed over five decades is the incomparable sense of magic it bestows on all who pass through the arched entrance gates. Disney World at 50 is a celebration of the park's rich and fascinating history, from its early development as "The Florida Project" to the ever spectacular present. Explore Walt's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
8) Florida
Author
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, economy, culture, and future of Florida.
Author
Series
Publisher
SportsZone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title examines the history of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, telling the story of the franchise and its top players, greatest games, and most thrilling moments. This book includes informative sidebars, high-energy photos, a timeline, a team file, and a glossary. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the outside, the Dozier School for Boys in Florida looked utterly charming. Carefully manicured lawns and attractive plantings adorned walkways and drives. But the reality of life at Dozier was ugly. In 2008, almost one hundred years after the reform school's founding, Robert Straley and Roger Dean Kiser discovered they shared similar abusive experiences while students at the Dozier School for Boys. They recalled vicious punishments at a campus...
12) The Everglades
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Language
English
Description
Lavishly illustrated description of the physical features, wildlife, vegetation, and ecology of Everglades National Park in Florida.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In covering the history of the 'Most Magical Place On Earth,' Joan Holub takes readers both behind the scenes and underneath the park (there are secret employee-only tunnels that form one big circle under the Magic Kingdom). Loaded with ... facts, this book is a ... companion to Who Was Walt Disney?"--
14) Don Juan McQueen
Author
Series
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Eugenia Price captures the drama, the glory, and the pure emotion of Southern life and love with perfection in Don Juan McQueen.
A powerful novel by Eugenia Price, Don Juan McQueen tells the story of John McQueen, an American patriot and friend of Washington and Jefferson, who finds himself bankrupt and forced to flee to Spanish East Florida to escape imprisonment. Anne, his beautiful wife, and children remain in Savannah, Georgia,...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
"Since the World Began - Walt Disney World: The First 25 Years is the first and only concise, authorized history of "The Vacation Kingdom of the World." This lavish, entertaining, and absolutely unique history of Walt Disney's city of dreams tells the story of America's most popular tourist attraction, beginning with the success of Disneyland and Walt Disney's personal vision of a futuristic planned city in central Florida." "There is also a special...
Author
Series
Publisher
SportsZone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title examines the history of the Jacksonville Jaguars, telling the story of the franchise and its top players, greatest games, and most thrilling moments. This book includes informative sidebars, high-energy photos, a timeline, a team file, and a glossary. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.
17) Fort Mose: and the Story of the Man who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Follows the history of slavery from West Africa to America, recounts what daily life was like, and describes the founding of the Spanish colonies.
Author
Publisher
Grove
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher's son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French. The novel moves from the bordellos of Natchez, where Angel meets his love Red Kate to the Mississippi River...
Author
Publisher
Pineapple Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Full-color photographs and text document the ecosystem of the Florida Everglades, describing its unique plant and animal life and efforts to reverse the environmental abuse in the area.