Download or read book Kidnapped in Key West written by Edwina Raffa and published by Pineapple Press. This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daring adventure on Henry Flaglers Over-Sea Railroad! Twelve-year-old Eddie Malone is living a carefree life swimming and fishing in the Florida Keys in 1912 when suddenly his world is turned upside down. His father, a worker on Henry Flaglers Over-Sea Railroad, is thrown into jail for stealing the railroad payroll. Convinced that he is responsible for his pa's arrest, Eddie sets out for Key West with his faithful dog, Rex, on a daring mission to prove his father's innocence. Eddie arrives in Key West as preparations are under way for the arrival of Flagler's first train. Eddie meets the Kimble twins, T. J. and Jen, who live at the Key West Lighthouse and are practicing for their part in the great celebration. They offer to help Eddie with his plan to find the real payroll thieves. Eddie finds them, all right, but they kidnap him and lock him aboard their sailboat. As the boat moves swiftly away from Key West, Eddie realizes he's in serious trouble. Can Eddie escape from the clutches of the ruthless thieves? Will he ever get back home to Marathon? Most importantly, will Eddie be able to prove Pa's innocence? Historical fiction, ages 8–12 Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Download or read book Kidnapped in Key West Teacher s Activity Guide written by Edwina Raffa and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers Manual for Kidnapped in Key West. Historical fiction, 1912. Ages 8-12. Twelve-year-old Eddie Malone is living a carefree life in the Florida Keys when his father, a worker on Henry Flagler's Over-Sea Railroad, is thrown into jail. Eddie sets out for Key West with his faithful dog, Rex—will he be in time to foil the thieves next plot and prove his pa's innocence?
Download or read book Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1886 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. - Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a coming-of-age novel that recounts the adventures of a teenager named David Balfour during the Jacobite Rebellions in 18th century Scotland. Following his father's death, David reaches out to an uncle, who betrays his nephew and sells him to a slave-trader headed for America. David's rescue from the slave ship by a Jacobite refugee starts David on a series of adventures that ensure his passage into manhood.
Download or read book Kidnapped in Key West written by Norah Perkin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a disastrous first marriage, Key West fitness club owner Robyn Locke finally dares to trust a man and marries contractor Will Ryder, only to be abducted from her wedding reception and held for ransom. When the ransom money is found in their home, the police arrest Will for her kidnapping and Robyn wavers in her commitment until an unimaginable death jolts her into taking a stand for herself and the man she loves.
Download or read book Solomon written by Marilyn Bishop Shaw and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Solomon works as hard as his parents, all former slaves, to make a living from their remote Florida homestead in the 1860s, but is encouraged in his dreams of a more adventurous life by Mr. Pete, a family friend and former Virginia plantation owner who now gathers and sells unclaimed cattle.
Download or read book Duval Dead written by Mike Pettit and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DUVAL DEAD Max Simms, Key West Mystery. Early reviews: "Laugh out loud funny." "Hardboiled Humor" "Mystery with a laugh" "Max Simms sets the bar high for a fun read." Right out of the Best Selling Jack Marsh Key West Series comes the bigger than life character, Max Simms, Jack's best friend (in his own mind). He's loveable, obnoxious, charming, cowardly, a braggart, con artist, snitch, and a weasel that will change his mind and loyalty if there's a buck in it. Max is a Key West cab driver that taking an On-Line P.I. course and is out to make a reputation as the best gumshoe on Duval Street. Duval dead is loaded with oddball characters, crooks, shysters, goons, and dames. Max is left holding a baby and a suitcase loaded with drugs and money at the Key West airport. A rolling gunfight, a kidnapped woman, and a stolen container of drugs tax Max's detecting skillset to the limits.
Download or read book Race to Kitty Hawk written by Edwina Raffa and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being adopted by a woman in Dayton, Ohio, in 1903, orphaned twelve-year-old Tess Raney uncovers a plot to foil the Wright brothers' quest to be the first in flight, and takes great risks to make sure the plot fails.
Download or read book Escape to the Everglades written by Edwina Raffa and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised as a Seminole, Will Cypress is eager to join Osceola and his followers in the late 1830s as they battle white soldiers in the second Seminole War, fighting to remain in their Florida homelands, until a chance meeting with his white father's relatives causes Will to question his loyalties.
Download or read book The Treasure of Amelia Island written by M C. Finotti and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accelerated Reader Quiz #129357. Level 5.3 Winner of the Florida Historical Society's Horgan Award, The Treasure of Amelia Island focuses on eleven-year-old Mary Kingsley, daughter of historical figure Ana Jai Kingsley. It is December 1813. Mary and her family live in La Florida, a Spanish territory under siege by Patriots of the United States of America. The Patriots want to force Spain out of the land it has ruled for nearly three hundred years. Mary is the youngest child of former slave Ana Jai. Her white father freed Mary and the rest of the family, but the Patriots don't care. They see no place for freed people of color in a new Florida and want to make Mary's family slaves again. Against these mighty events, Mary decides to search for a legendary pirate treasure with her brother, George, and her half-brother, Diego. This treasure hunt, filled with danger and recklessness, changes Mary forever. The Kingsley family actually existed in this era. Zephaniah Kingsley married the African slave Ana Jai. He freed her and their three children and they lived at a plantation that you can visit today in northeast Florida. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Download or read book Stolen written by Richard Bell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice belongs “alongside the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edward P. Jones, and Toni Morrison” (Jane Kamensky, Professor of American History at Harvard University). Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home. Their ordeal—an odyssey that takes them from the Philadelphia waterfront to the marshes of Mississippi and then onward still—shines a glaring spotlight on the Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers and slave traders who stole away thousands of legally free African Americans from their families in order to fuel slavery’s rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War. “Rigorously researched, heartfelt, and dramatically concise, Bell’s investigation illuminates the role slavery played in the systemic inequalities that still confront Black Americans” (Booklist).
Download or read book Rum Runner written by Tricia Leedom and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English socialite Sophie Davies-Stone has been longing to meet her father since she was a little girl. When he sends her a mysterious medallion and asks her to forward it to him in Miami, she can't help herself from doing something totally un-Sophie-like. Rather than mailing it as instructed, Sophie hops on a flight to Florida.But the family reunion never happens. Instead, Sophie is attacked and almost kidnapped by her father's enemies. Her savior is Jimmy Panama, a cocky and annoyingly handsome former Navy SEAL. Sophie isn't the only one who's annoyed. After years of trying to find a way to pay back his CO, Jimmy never thought his debt would get him mixed up with his commander's uptight, British daughter. He just wants to put her on the next flight home and get back to his low-stress life in Key West, but fate has other plans.As Sophie and Jimmy embark on a heart-pounding adventure through Key West and the Caribbean, Sophie finds herself falling for the snarky American. Still, her head says Jimmy is all wrong for her, and the more she finds out about him - and her father - the more uncertain she is about who she can trust.One thing is clear. Sophie is in way over her head, and her greatest adventure might be her last.
Download or read book Escape to the Everglades Teacher s Activity Guide written by Edwina Raffa and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes activity ideas and worksheets to use in all areas of elementary study related to the juvenile novel Escape to the Everglades. Sunshine State standards for grades 3-5 are included for each area of study.
Download or read book Gumbo Limbo written by Tom Corcoran and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-09-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleuth and crime photographer Alex Rutledge of Key West searches for a friend, a financial investor abducted from a bar. A tale of murder, drugs and beautiful women.
Download or read book Freedom written by Jaycee Dugard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Stolen Children written by Peg Kehret and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful thriller about a young babysitter who uses her wits and a big dose of courage as she attempts to save herself and the toddler in her care from kidnappers.
Download or read book Finding Florida written by T. D. Allman and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive look at the history of the state of Florida, from its discovery, exploration, and settlement through its becoming a state, to notable events in the early twenty-first century.
Download or read book A Penny for a Hundred written by Ethel Pochocki and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Penny for a Hundred is beloved children's book author Ethel Pockocki's timeless tale of culture shock in rural Maine during the Second World War. It is 1944 and nine-year-old Clare will finally be able to help with the potato harvest—up until now, she was only able to earn the "penny a hundred" her father paid her to pick potato bugs off the plants. But this year, with so many local men off fighting the war, German POWs are brought in to help with the harvest. Clare's not sure what to expect from the strangers, but it soon becomes clear that these men are not so different from young American soldiers—they are relieved to be out of the fighting, but sad to be so far from home. For Christmas, Clare is determined to recreate at least one familiar tradition for Peter, a POW who has befriended her. Their gifts for one another strengthen the bonds of their friendship and help both the POWs and Clare's family enjoy a memorable Christmas Eve. Even amid the hardships of war, they find much to give each other.
