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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
JoLayne Luck enlists the help of investigative journalist Tom Krone to chase down Bodean Gazzer and his sidekick Chub, the two men who stole JoLayne's winning lottery ticket in order to set up their own underground militia group in Florida.
3) Flush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Short-tempered environmentalist Twilly Spree, having sought retaliation against litterer Palmer Stoat by loading Stoat's Range Rover with a horde of hungry dung beetles, realizes he has hit the jackpot when he discovers Stoat is one of the movers and shakers in a plan to build a mall on a pristine Gulf Coast island.
7) Scat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
8) Nature girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Honey Santana–impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes”–has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She’s taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie, into the wilderness of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands for a gentle lesson in civility.
What she...
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9) Hoot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
10) Chomp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
The difficult star of the reality television show, "Expedition Survival," disappears on location in the Florida Everglades, where they were filming animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, and Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him, but they must avoid Tuna's gun-happy father.
11) Star Island
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ann DeLusia--a "stunt double" for pop star Cherry Pye whenever Cherry is too indisposed to be seen in public--is kidnapped by an obsessed paparazzo from a hotel in South Beach, Cherry's record producer, publicist, and others attempt to rescue Ann while keeping the ordeal a secret.
12) Skin tight
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forty-two-year-old former Florida state investigator Mick Stranahan, having just speared an intruder with a stuffed marlin head, realizes that someone wants him dead, but it is going to take a lot of work to sort through the long list of suspects.
13) Powder Burn
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen's gripping debut A witness to a gangland murder must outwit and outrun the vicious hit men on his trail-before it's too late Chris Meadows's charmed life as an up-and-coming architect has kept him far removed from Miami's bloody drug trade. But his comfortable existence comes crashing down around him when Chris witnesses the hit-and-run death of an ex-girlfriend by a car full of drug smuggling gangsters....
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