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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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FLORIDA

For Kids

Face to Face With Manatees

Face to Face With Manatees


by Brian Skerry

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 32 PAGES
  • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

Brian Skerry's astonishing photographs and amazing adventures in southern Florida for ages 7-11. (FLA98, $16.95)

Flush


by Carl Hiaasen

  • LITERATURE
  • 2005
  • HARD COVER
  • 272 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

An environmental adventure full of outlandish characters and Florida landscapes, proving once and for all that kids can save the day. (FLA64, $16.95)

Hoot

Hoot


by Carl Hiaasen

  • LITERATURE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

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)

Legends of the Seminoles


by Betty Mae Jumper

  • LITERATURE
  • 1994
  • PAPER
  • 96 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

An enjoyable illustrated retelling of Seminole folk tales, intended for both children and adults. (FLA12, $18.95)

Stories from Where We Live, The Gulf Coast

Stories from Where We Live, The Gulf Coast


by Sara St. Antoine | Trudy Nicholson | Paul Mirocha

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

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)

Supercroc and the Origin of Crocodiles


by Christopher Sloan

  • SCIENCE
  • 2002
  • HARD COVER
  • 64 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

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)

The Manatee Scientists, The Science of Saving the Vulnerable


by Peter Lourie

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 80 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Colorful and informative, this volume in the popular series for ages 10 and up follows scientists working to rescue manatees in Florida, Senegal and the Amazon. (BST193, $18.99)

The Yearling


by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 528 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

Lonely young Jody Baxter adopts an orphaned fawn to be his companion in rural central Florida in this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Filled with warmth and an appreciation for nature, this is a compelling coming-of-age story. (FLA82, $6.99)

 

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