Let's Take a Trip...to Florida!

Alligators, Everglades, Manatees and more!

It’s time to escape winter and head to Florida through the pages of these books! There are books in a variety of genres so you can choose how you want to take your trip to the Sunshine State. As a reminder, if you are looking for specific book recommendations for the 8-12 year-old reader in your life, let me know and I’d love to help out!

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Chomp

(Humor) Wahoo Cray’s dad is a professional animal wrangler and that makes life interesting! Then his dad takes a job with a reality TV show called Expedition Survival! and things get even more interesting. Now there’s a missing TV show host, alligators to be wrestled, bats that bite, and more. Who will survive the Everglades?

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Cuba in My Pocket

(Historical Fiction) When the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 solidifies Castro’s power in Cuba, twelve-year-old Cumba’s family makes the difficult decision to send him to Florida alone. This is a well-written historical novel based on the author’s family history. Life in Florida comes with a whole new set of challenges and Cumba wonders if his family will ever be all together again.

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The Curse on Spectacle Key

(Spooky) Frank Fernandez’s family moves around a lot which makes it difficult for him to make friends. When his parents announce they’re moving to Spectacle Key, Florida, but the plan is to settle in there, Frank could not be more excited. But things don’t go quite like he imagined. Not only is the lighthouse they’re living in falling apart, but there are strange knocks, a creepy doll, and a strange old-fashioned girl. Could Spectacle Key be haunted?

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Into the Glades

(Fantasy) Best friends Cordelia and Larkin have always called the Glades home. But when Cordelia’s father dies unexpectedly, a dark curse sweeps over the land. The girls know that the curse must be tied to Oziris’s death, and they’re determined to break the curse. They set off with their two little brothers on a journey through a magical, Everglades-inspired swampland in an effort to break the curse.

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Manatee Summer

(Realistic Fiction) Peter has a goal for the summer: finish his Discovery Journal. As he works on this project with his best friend, they meet a manatee (what a find for their journal!), but when they realize the manatee is injured, they also know they need to do their best to protect the manatee. He also finds himself taking care of his ailing grandfather and Peter quickly realizes that this summer isn’t going quite like he’d hoped.

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The Sherlock Society

(Mystery) Four kids, one grandfather, a dead alligator. What could go wrong? Siblings Alex and Zoe Sherlock invite their friends Lina and Yadi to join their detective agency for the summer. Alex and Zoe’s grandfather offers to help them and provide transportation while they’re solving mysteries. Their first mission is to find long-lost treasure with ties to famed gangster Al Capone, but will they be able to find the treasure before they’re caught snooping around?

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