The Tiger Rising
Twelve-year-old Rob Horton finds a tiger in the misty Florida woods.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 232
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520
subjects: tigers, animals, wood carving, friendship [X], florida [X], animal welfare, tiger, children's audiobooks, wood-carving, audiobooks, compact discs, large print books, animal fiction, realistic fiction
A Whole Lot Of Lucky
When twelve-year-old Hailee's family wins the lottery, her life changes in unexpected--and not always good--way.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
Lost Memory Of Skin
After being released from prison, a young man whose life was destroyed after a liaison with an underage girl agrees to help a university sociologist with his research on homelessness and recidivism among six offenders and the two form an unlikely friendship, until events from the professor's past come to light and cause the young man to question everything he knows.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Violet Raines Almost Got Struck By Lightning
In 1970's Florida, eleven-year-old Violet's world is turned upside down by the arrival of a girl from Detroit who seems bent on stealing Violet's best friends.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
Beezy
Beezy and her best friend Merlin, who live in Florida, wait out a hurricane, find a dog, and make friends with a circus performer.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 40
Beezy At Bat
Three stories in which Beezy cracks nuts and riddles, picks berries, and plays baseball.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 160
Raina's Story
After sixteen-year-old Raina learns that she is a perfect match for donating bone marrow to a leukemia patient in Virginia, she discovers that the young woman is the sister she never knew she had.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: interpersonal relations, mothers and daughters, sisters, leukemia, friendship [X], florida [X], virginia, christian life, mother-daughter relationship
Lights, Camera, Quince!
Carmen is turning fifteen and her friends Sarita, Alicia, Jamie, and Gaz plan to throw her a quinceanera, but when the group decides to join a reality show competition, Carmen feels like her party is becoming less important.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: quinceanera (social celebration), hispanic american teenagers, birthdays, reality television programs, miami (fla.), quincea?era (social custom), teenage girls, friendship [X], florida [X], quincean?ra (social custom)
Holly's Story
With the support of her two best friends, high school senior Holly tries to deal with the murder of her brother and her anger at God for allowing the crime to happen.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: christian fiction, christian life, friendship [X], brothers and sisters, murder, florida [X], grief
The Last Wild Place
With problems mounting at home and with his best friend, when sixth-grader Chip discovers a family of Florida panthers in the marshy woods behind an abandoned farm, he puts aside his own predicaments and concentrates on finding a safe home for the wild animals.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
The Sorta Sisters
In Florida, Anna Casey lives with what she hopes is the last in a long line of foster mothers, and Mica Delano lives with her father on their small boat, and when the two of them begin corresponding, they discover they have a lot in common.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: friendship [X], foster home care, single parent families, alcoholism, letters, florida [X]
Locals Only
Toby Hardin, struggling to fit in after his father's job in the Air Force relocated the family to Florida, begins skateboarding and faces tough decision about his new friends when one of them begins drinking alcohol.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
True Fires
The Dare family heads to Florida to seek their fortune in oranges after the death of their mother, but when the local sheriff tries to ban them from the all-white school, it takes a court case that will divide the town to determine their fate.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: segregation in education, whites, social isolation, school children, friendship [X], florida [X]
The Deathday Letter
After fifteen-year-old Ollie receives a letter that says he will be dead within twenty-four hours, he and his two best friends, Shane and would-be girlfriend Ronnie, set out to fulfill as many of Ollie's hopes as they can.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
More Than Good Enough
"When seventeen-year-old Trent Osceola moves to the Rez to live with his father, a member of Florida's Miccosukee Tribe, he faces new questions about his identity and reconnects with his childhood friend Pippa"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mikasuki indians, fathers and sons, native americans, indian reservations, identity (psychology), friendship [X], indians of north america, florida [X]