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1) Chomp
Author
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.
Author
Series
Shivers ; 2
Publisher
Paradise Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
On vacation in the Everglades, Jason and his family meet with weird happenings and dangerous encounters with wildlife and strange creatures.
Author
Series
Killer species ; 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
While walking his dog in the backyard, Emmet comes into contact with Dr. Catalyst's latest genetic creation, a cross between the vampire bat and the baldfaced hornet.
6) Dolphin sky
Author
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Buddy, whose dyslexia makes things difficult for her both at home and at school, hopes to rescue the dolphins that are being held captive and mistreated at a swamp farm near her home in the Everglades.
Author
Series
Killer species ; 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Catalyst has had enough of Emmet Doyle's meddling. Time after time, Emmet and his friend Calvin Geaux have stepped in to ruin his plans, just when he'd released one of his genetically engineered killer species into the Florida environment. This time, Dr. Catalyst is releasing his most deadly creation yet. It's a terrifying lone hunter, bred to stalk and destroy one specific target--Emmet Doyle.
10) Boys of Blur
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When Charlie moves to Taper, Florida he discovers a secret world hidden within the sugar cane fields"--
11) Lostman's River
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Tyler encounters vicious hunters whose actions threaten to destroy the Everglades ecosystem, and as a result joins the battle to protect that fragile environment.
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
2007.
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.
14) Rare birds
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"While his mother waits for a life-saving heart transplant, eleven-year-old Graham Dodds sets out to find an endangered Snail Kite in the Florida Everglades."--
16) Feeding frenzy
Author
Series
Killer species ; 2
Publisher
Scholastic Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Time has passed since anyone's heard from Dr. Catalyst. Emmet and Calvin have even begun to think that the crazed scientist might be gone for good. But then, on a trip to snorkel off the Florida coast, one of their friends is nearly drowned by an underwater monster, with endless rows of razor-sharp teeth. No one is quite sure what they saw. Was it a moray eel? A giant barracuda? There's only one thing Emmet knows for certain. Dr. Catalyst is back....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When her mother dies Sparrow is left with only an aunt for a relative, and no human friends, because most of the residents of the small town of Beulah find her "unusual" and think her house near the Everglades is haunted (which it is)--in fact Sparrow's only real friend is the Boy, an unusually solid-seeming ghost who accompanies her everywhere, but never speaks, and who has a secret which Sparrow will need to discover, perhaps with the help of a...
18) Trouble dolls
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
When her environmentalist father is lost in the Everglades, Lizzie sets out to find him with the help of her dog, Spooner, and a family of tiny Guatemalan trouble dolls.
Author
Series
Killer species ; 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
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....
Author
Series
Scoop ; 2
Publisher
Insight Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
" Sophie's newfound fame as an investigative reporter leads to her next case--a local celebrity charged with the murder of his ex-wife. Despite overwhelming evidence, the hometown hero maintains his innocence and wants Sophie's help in finding the real killer. But she's already pretty busy trying to survive WMIA 7, high school, love triangles, her quincenera, and new paranormal discoveries in the Everglades with ties to Sophie's own past."--Publisher....