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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
Español
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"Para Merci Suárez, el octavo grado significa un nuevo corte de pelo, juegos nocturnos de fútbol americano y una excursión de una noche fuera de la ciudad. También significa más quehaceres en casa y que tendrá que estar pendiente de Lolo si empeora su salud. Es un año repleto de más responsabilidades e independencia, pero también de más oportunidades de reinventarse. Merci siempre ha aceptado el hecho de que no es una de las chicas más...
42) Manatee summer
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Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something special--and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect! As Peter joins the fight to save Florida manatees, he also finds himself taking care of his ailing grandfather and facing an unwelcome...
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Amber McCloud’s dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but it’s an extra-tall order to be joyful and spirited when the quarterback of your team has been killed in a car accident. For both the team and the squad, watching Robbie get replaced by newcomer Jack Walsh is brutal. And when it turns out Jack is actually short for Jaclyn, all hell breaks loose. The players refuse to be led by a girl, the cheerleaders are mad about the...
44) Fins
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Series
Sharks Incorporated volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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The world's shark population is in trouble for a sad, simple reason: shark fin soup. And although it's illegal, poachers have been targeting Florida's biannual migration of blacktip sharks. Marine biologist Doc Ford needs some assistance protecting the sharks and enlists the help of three kids, Luke, Marta, and Sabina. Together they form Sharks, Inc. and are given an important assignment: to set out each day on their small fishing boat in hopes of...
45) 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.
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Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
BEFORE: Bridge and Wil have been entangled in each other's lives for years. Under the white-hot Florida sun, they went from kids daring each other to swim past the breakers to teenagers stealing kisses between classes. But when Bridge betrayed Wil during their junior year, she shattered his heart and their relationship along with it. AFTER: Then Wil's family suffers a violent loss and Bridge rushes back to Wil's side. As they struggle to heal old...
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Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Noura and her family, fleeing war in Syria, have been granted asylum in the United States, but they arrive in Florida to the chaos of the president's Muslim ban; twelve-year-old Jordyn is a member of the Christian church that is sponsoring the Alwan family, and Noura's student ambassador in middle school; their inevitable culture clash is made far worse by the wave of hate crimes unleashed by the Muslim ban, and personal problems of...
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Series
Kingdom keepers. Original series volume 4
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
For the five teens who modeled as Disney Hologram Imaging hosts, life is settling down when an intriguing video arrives. The Overtakers are plotting to attempt a rescue of two of their leaders, both of whom the Disney Imagineers have hidden away somewhere following a violent encounter in EPCOT. An attack by new Overtakers at Downtown Disney startles the group. A dark cloud in the Kingdom Keeper era is unfolding, and with dissension in the ranks, it's...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When 12-year-old KT Wynn learns that she has to move from Iowa City to Florida, she's distraught. Not only does she have to leave behind her best friends and the only home she's ever known, she also has to deal with being the new kid in school. And she's especially worried about how her wheelchair, Sprinkles, will affect things. On the bright side, she'll still have her big sister, Lucy, with her, and she'll even get to see a dolphin--her favorite...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sloane isn't expecting to fall in with a group of friends when she moves from New York to Florida -- especially not a group of friends so intense, so layered with private tragedies and secret codes, and so all-consuming. Yet that's exactly what happens. Sloane becomes closest to Vera, a social-media star who lights up any room, and Gabe, Vera's twin brother and most serious person Sloane has ever met. When a beloved painting by the twins' late mother...
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Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
En 1935, cuando su madre consigue un trabajo de limpieza para una mujer a la que no le gustan los niños, Turtle, de once años, es enviada a quedarse con parientes que nunca conoció en el lejano Key West, Florida.
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
53) Perfect couple
Author
Series
The Superlatives volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When yearbook photographer Harper and the star player of the high school football team get voted 'the perfect couple that never was' by their senior class, the unlikely pair start falling for one another. But a handful of obstacles, including Harper's boyfriend, stand in the way of their perfect ending"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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When Korean American Jasmine Yap's long-time boyfriend, Paul, is caught cheating on her, her giant, overprotective family secretly arranges to use her graduation party to introduce her to Orlando's most eligible men.
Jasmine Yap plans to move in with her long-time boyfriend, Paul, before starting a nursing program at community college-- until she catches Paul cheating. To her giant, overprotective family, Paul's loss is their golden ticket to showing...
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Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
"En su último año de instituto, Quentin no ha aprobado ni en popularidad ni en asuntos del corazón ... Pero todo cambia cuando su vecina, la legendaria, inalcanzable y enigmática Margo Roth Spiegelman, se presenta en mitad de la noche para proponerle que le acompañe en un plan de venganza inaudito. Después de una intensa noche que reaviva el vínculo de una infancia compartida y parece sellar un nuevo destino para ambos, Margo desaparece dejando...
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Series
Farah rocks volume 4
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Farah's little brother is in the hospital with a heart problem that needs surgery, so her parents send sixth-grader Farah off to stay with her grandmother in a retirement condo in Florida; Sitti Fayrouz does not speak much English, has a lot of rules, and does not understand Farah's interest in geology, so Farah is not happy with the move--but despite being the only child in the community, Farah finds that the people are nice, and despite getting...
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Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Miranium's summer is going down hill fast: her best friend, Thomas, has moved away, her know-it-all nemesis, Tamika, has moved too near for comfort, her parents are stressed since her father has lost his job, she has just blown up the microwave with an ill advised experiment (destroying her own cellphone in the process), and worst of all her beloved cat, Sir Fig Newton, has developed diabetes; there is no money for his medical care,...
60) Blood brothers
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Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Calvin Johnston's secret is out. He and his brothers are tainted. Untouchable. And the bad blood flowing through their veins is threatening to kill them. So are some of their neighbors in Ashland, the "Friendliest Little Town" in Florida. The Johnston brothers are kicked out of everything--school, baseball, scouts, even church. Ashland's anger has erupted into the fireball of hate. The only silver lining is that Calvin's best friend Izzy lives 65...
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