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1) Swamplandia!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the swamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wrestling. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon...
5) First drop
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins' Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Chaz Perron's wife discovers that he is running a scam- posing as a marine biologist to doctor water samples so that an agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the Everglades--, he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner. Unlucky for Chaz, Joey survives clutching a bale of Jamaican pot. Rescued from the Atlantic by a former police officer, Mick Stranahan, she decides not to report him but instead haunt and taunt him-with...
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ivy and Ray accompany their parents on a trip to the Florida Everglades in order to find their only living relative, a distant cousin who, according to their great-grandfather's memoirs, absconded with a valuable, if unspecified, item.
8) Chomp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Shadow of death
Author
Language
English
Description
When Amy Larson and her partner Hunter Forrest investigate a missing persons case in a series of caves outside Denver, Colorado, they discover a muddy pit littered with corpses that are covered in human bite marks and find the case leading them to a cult.
11) Out for blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
It's a quiet night when Dylan takes his dog, Apollo, out for a walk in the backyard. Until the noise begins. Part bat screech, part insect buzz - it seems to be coming from the roof. Suddenly the sky is full of dark, beating shapes, and they're all headed straight for Dylan. Dr. Catalyst's newest creations are hungry, and only one thing will satisfy them. Blood.
Author
Series
Everglades volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2004, ©2003
Language
English
Description
Meeting a former lover whose husband has disappeared and been pronounced dead, Doc Ford investigates the woman's suspicions of foul play and finds himself deep in the Everglades.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Emmet Doyle is not in the best mood when he arrives in Florida City. His father is a wildlife biologist, and has been summoned to the Everglades, dragging Emmet along with him. Though still in mourning from losing his mom a year ago, Emmet's trying hard to keep a good attitude. Upon their arrival, however, things quickly get weird. Dr. Rosalita Geaux, the Park Superintendent, wastes no time in revealing the reason she called Emmet's father to Florida....
14) Wake up missing
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After a concussion that effects her balance, memory, and other abilities, twelve-year-old Kat goes to I-Can, the "Miracle Clinic in the Swamp," where she joins forces with other patients to expose plot that endangers them all.
Author
Series
Edilean volume 4
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Charleston, 1799: A daughter of Southern gentility and a gifted painter, Catherine Edilean Harcourt has no lack of suitors at home in Virginia, waiting to fulfill her dream of marriage and family. But Cay's adventurous spirit, fostered by growing up with her three brothers, is piqued while visiting her godfather in South Carolina. Bedridden with a broken leg, he asks Cay to fill in for him on an urgent task: on her way to a fancy dress ball, she must...
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