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Deadly Waters: A Mystery in Everglades National Park
• Gloria Skurzynski
• Alane Ferguson
• MYSTERY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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While visiting the Everglades National Park with their parents, the Landon children uncover the mystery of dying manatees and learn important lessons about the natural environment.
(FLA69, $4.99)
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The Everglades
• Wayne Lynch
• NATURAL HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Lynch's first-person narratives and stunning photography focus on the interdependency of animals and plants of the Everglades.
(EGL10, $8.95)
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Here Is the Wetland
• Wayne McLoughlin
• Madeleine Dunphy
• NATURAL HISTORY
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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A lyrical primer on wetland ecology for children 4-8 that celebrates the relationships between all the different flora and fauna. Part of Dunphy's award-winning Web of Life series.
(FLA77, $9.95)
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Hoot
• Carl Hiaasen
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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The captivating tale for tweens about kids and eco-activism in southern Florida by the legendary Hiaasen, also made into a heart-warming movie.
(USE383, $6.99)
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Legends of the Seminoles
• Betty Mae Jumper
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An enjoyable illustrated retelling of Seminole folk tales, intended for both children and adults.
(FLA12, $18.95)
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The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
• Phillip Hoose
• NATURAL HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An engaging and well-researched history of the ivory-billed woodpecker, and the struggles surrounding its survival. It's a suspenseful and entertaining book about modern conservation and environmental issues for middle-school readers.
(BRD30, $21.00)
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The Seminole
• Merwyn Garbarino
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A comprehensive introduction to the Seminole Indians for young readers.
(FLA05, $22.95)
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Stories from Where We Live, The Gulf Coast
• Sara St. Antoine
• Trudy Nicholson
• Paul Mirocha
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An anthology of writings about coastal Texas, Florida and Louisiana -- wonderfully useful as a young person's guide to people, nature and place
(USS248, $10.95)
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Supercroc and the Origin of Crocodiles
• Christopher Sloan
• SCIENCE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Sure to delight aspiring paleontologists as well as those with an interest in crocodiles, this colorful book looks back at the ancestors of today's swamp dwellers to find enormous reptiles (some as big as a bus!) that lived with, and somehow outlasted, the dinosaurs. For kids 9-12.
(SCI61, $18.95)
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