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2) Chomp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
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.
5) Swamp story
Author
Language
English
Description
Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out, Jesse stumbles across a long-lost treasure, which could solve all her problems - if she can figure out how to keep it. The problem is, some very bad men are also looking for the treasure, and they know Jesse...
6) 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...
7) Dolphin sky
Author
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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
Max Freeman Novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
On a night that will haunt him forever, ex-cop Max Freeman killed a twelve-year-old child in self-defense in a Philadelphia shootout. Since then he has lived a solitary existence on the edge of the Florida Everglades, where he answers to no one save the demons tormenting his conscience. But when he finds the corpse of a child along a shadowy riverbank, he's pulled back into the twisted maze of law and order -- as a murder suspect. Now Freeman has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Leisure Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After her husband is murdered and her daughter disappears, Lavinia Price ventures alone into the Florida Everglades, where she is rescued by Seminole chieftain Wolf Dancer, a passionate and gentle warrior who has a special gift.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the Florida Everglades, the body of a woman is discovered in pieces, presumably ravaged by an alligator. Upon closer inspection, it's determined no animal could make such perfectly precise cuts. Only a blade could do that. Wielded by a human. Soon, dozens of oil drums emerge amid the river of grass. Each one packed to the brim with body parts. FDLE special agent Amy Larson and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, share a bad feeling...
13) Skinny dip
Author
Series
Skink volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn't know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he's found a way -- doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard from a cruise...
16) Crocodile safari
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 970L
Language
English
Description
Writer Jim Arnosky describes his trip into the Florida Everglades in search of the elusive American crocodile, an animal which has inhabited the earth since the days of the dinosaurs. Includes song "Counting crocodiles", music and lyrics by the author.
19) The Everglades
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
20) The swamp
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The story of humanity's attempts to conquer the Florida Everglades.