15 Chapter Books Set in Florida for 4th Graders

 My fourth grade team uses many different chapter books to integrate social studies with reading. It took us some time to find books that were about different areas of the state and from different time periods. The books are used as a read aloud and in literature circles. Below is a list of the books we use in class that are set in Florida. 

Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm

Blown Away! by Joan Hiatt Harlow

The Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George

  

Trouble on the St. Johns River by Jane R Wood

Adventures on Amelia Island: A Pirate, A Princess, and Buried Treasure by Jane R Wood

Voices in St Augustine by Jane R Wood

Vet Volunteers - Manatee Blues by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo by Jean Craighead George

Panther Girl by Maity Schrecengost

A Land Remembered - Volume 1 and 2 by Patrick D Smith 

Flush  by Carl Hiaasen 

Chomp by Carl Hiaasen

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

Pirates of Pensacola by Keith Thomas

The Treasure of Amelia Island by  M. C. Finotti



The following books are short stories. 

Tellable Cracker Tales by Annette J. Bruce

ZoraHurston and the Chinaberry Tree by William Miller 

     

 I posted previously book advertisements that my students did for a 3 of the books listed.  

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