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Literature List (Alphabetical by author's last name) Jane R. Wood, Illustrated by Elizabeth A. Blacker || //Jane R. Wood has blended historical fiction, mystery, and folklore in this fantastic story based in Florida’s oldest city, St. Augustine. Joey Johnson prefers baseball over history any day, that is, until he begins to hear strange voices in the old town of St. Augustine. Joey discovers the value of the past and the historical city as he tries to unveil the mystery behind the strange voices he hears. // //(Natacha Edmondson) // || || //This children’s book is based on true events and is a historical fiction short chapter book. It focuses on three friends who live in St. Augustine just after it was founded by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. It goes through where they lived, how they lived, and the extremely hard times they went through. It focuses on how someone would live back in those days and would give students perspective on how these Florida explorers lived. // //(Ana Bechel) // || Sadyebeth and Anson Lowitz || //This is historical fiction because the premise is that Ponce de Len wants to be young again so he sets to find the Fountain of Youth and includes factual details about him exploration in Florida. Is has great picture details and is on an appropriate 3rd to 5th grade reading level. // //(Ana Bechel) // || Mary Pope Osborne || (Faith Griffin) || Jane Yolen || (Faith Griffin) || Jane Yolen || (Faith Griffin & Natacha Edmondson) || Carson, Robert || (Chanelle Maxwell) This book is a biography of the Spanish explorer who became the first European to reach the Mississippi River. This is a great book because it has a lot of pictures. || Jan Adkins || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Faith Griffin) || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">//Hernando DeSoto: A Search for Gold and Glor//y || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">// This is book is recreates the tale of the adventurous like of 16th century Hernando DeSoto. // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">// (Chanelle Maxwell) // || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Arlene Bourgeois Molzahn || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 17px;">This is a great book on information about Ponce de Leon and his journey to discover Florida and his purpose for his journey. It's main focus is how his discovery of Florida rather than everything he accomplished throughout his life. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 17px;">(Michelle Monge) // || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Robin Brown || //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book teaches not only about the history of crafts created by the Native Americans who lived here first, it also includes crafts inspired by the explorers and the people who settled here. It also contains many how to crafts items such as basket and pot holder. // //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Ana Bechel) // || <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Matthew C. Cannavale, with Robert Olwell || //<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">This non-fiction text describes Florida’s discovery to the beginnings of statehood and all the battles in between. Cannavale uses old maps, paintings, and detailed facts to bring Florida’s history to life. He goes into depth about the Conquistadors, Natives, French explorers, and the British colonists of the 15th to 18th Centuries. // //<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Natacha Edmondson) // || <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rachel Eagen || //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Faith Griffin) // || <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jim Gallagher || //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">This biography of the famous explorer Hernando de Soto follows his journey through the New World. Gallagher writes in third person narrative creating an exciting and easy read. The book illustrates Hernando de Soto’s motivations, struggles, and successes in the New World to his death. The book also includes a list of events in chronological order and a glossary. // //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Natacha Edmondson) // || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Anita Ganeri || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Faith Griffin) || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dan Harmon || //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book describes Ponce de Leon life before his search for the Fountain of Youth and afterwards until his death. // //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Faith Griffin) // || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ann Heinrichs || //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is a children’s book biography of Juan Ponce de Leon. It includes pictures and maps of his exploration through Florida and will give the students visual support for what Florida looked like when it was first founded. This is also part of a series of other famous explorers. // //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Ana Bechel) // || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lynn Hoogenboom || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is also a book on Ponce de Leon and is a detailed biography on him and his various discoveries such as Florida and Puerto Rico. It also goes into his motives of discovery. (Michelle Monge) // || <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bob Knotts <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Summary || //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book briefly describes the history of Florida through the 21st century. It provides a map which is labeled to show the places where explorers landed during the 1500’s. // //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Faith Griffin) // || <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rubert Matthews || //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book provides visual and written descriptions of what life was like for explorers from different time periods. It contains artifacts from the past that explain exportation techniques used for navigation as well as the reasons explorations were funded by kings and queens. // //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Faith Griffin) // || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Albert Manucy || <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Michelle Monge) || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mary Pope Osborne || <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Faith Griffin) || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Steven Otfinoski || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is another book on Ponce De Leon about being the first discoverer of Florida and the reasons behind his journey there. (Michelle Monge) // || <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Russell Roberts || //<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Michelle Monge) // || <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sally Senzel Isaacs || //<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Isaacs describes the life and culture found in St. Augustine, Florida from 1513 to 1845 in this non-fiction book. The text is very easy and interesting to read. The illustrations and photographs help the reader to visualize life in the United States’ oldest city. Isaacs easily summarizes event from this time period including the discovery of Florida in 1513; the struggles between the Timucua and Spanish settlers; the development of St. Augustine; and more. The sections on the old homes of the city, the first school, and the children’s daily life provide information that many students can relate to. The author also included a brief introduction to St. Augustine today, an enlightened, yet historical city that will always have connections to its significant past. // //<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Natacha Edmondson) // || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Peter Sis || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Faith Griffin & Natacha Edmondson) ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Fiction ||
 * <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Voices in St. Augustine
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Saving Home by Judy Lindquist
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Magic Fountain: Another Really Truly Story
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pirates Past Noon
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Ballad of The Pirate Queens
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Encounter
 * The World Great Explorers
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Non Fiction ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">What If You Met a Pirate?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">What If You Met a Pirate?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">//Gibbons Faye//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ponce De Leon: Explorer of Florida
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Crafts of Florida’s First People
 * <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Voices from Colonial America: Florida 1513-1821
 * <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ponce de Leon Exploring Florida and Puerto Rico
 * <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ponce de Leon Exploring Florida and Puerto Rico
 * <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hernando de Soto and the Exploration of Florida
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Story of Columbus
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Juan Ponce Leon and the Search for the Fountain of Youth
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ponce de Leon: Juan Ponce de Leon Searches for the Fountain of Youth (Exploring the World)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Juan Ponce de Leon: A Primary Source Biography
 * <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Florida History
 * <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Explorer
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Menendez: Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Captain General of the Ocean Sea
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pirates A Nonfiction Companion to Pirates Past Noon
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Juan Ponce de Leon: Discoverer of Florida
 * <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pedro Menendez De Aviles (Latinos in American History)
 * <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Life in St. Augustine
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Follow The Dream The Story of Christopher Columbus
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Spanish Exploration of Florida

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Author: Bill and Dorcas Thompson || //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Summary: This is a detailed book about Florida's Spanish Explorers and their journey to their discoveries. It also highlights their major contributions to Florida and the impact they had. (Michelle Monge) // || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mary Dodson Wade || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Faith Griffin) || <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stuart Waldman, Illustrated by Tom McNeely || //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cabeza de Vaca’s treacherous expedition through Florida to “New Spain” (Mexico) was much more than he bargained for when leaving his home country in hopes of becoming rich. The King of Spain sent the soldier to the New World to report on the mistreatment of the natives. Like many explorers of the New World, Cabeza de Vaca thought the natives were barbaric and turned a blind eye to their mistreatment. However, after becoming lost in the Gulf of Mexico and living with various native tribes for over 6 years Cabeza de Vaca realizes that the natives are humans just like the Spaniards. In this eye opening biography students learn that human nature transcends through race and culture as they discover the many of the trials and tribulations of a 15th Century Spanish Explorer. // //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Natacha Edmondson) // || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> //(Chanelle Maxwell)// ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Christopher Columbus Famous Explorer
 * <span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">We Asked for Nothing: The Remarkable Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em;">//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 80%;">Hernando de Soto: Spanish Conquistador in the Americas (Great Explorers of the World by Jeff C. Young // || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//This book is about the Hernando DeSoto. It is a bibliographt that provides facts about the explorers life.//