Kidnapped in Key West


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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




Kidnapped in Key West Teacher's Activity Guide


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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?




Kidnapped


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"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.




Race to Kitty Hawk


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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.




Solomon


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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.




Escape to the Everglades


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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.




Escape to the Everglades Teacher's Activity Guide


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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.




Relativism, Nihilism, and God


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This book presents a defense of the reality of God in the sense in which Nietzsche proclaimed His death. It explores various contemporary versions of Nietzsche's maxim God is dead and proposes an alternative to them. Philip E.Devine critically examines three views that, in one way or another, accept the death of God and take it as central to the intellectual life: pragmatism, which asserts that the only end of the intellectual life is the pursuit of worldly goods other than truth; relativism', which admits a multiplicity of truths corresponding to the modes of life pursued by human beings; and nihilism, to which the pursuit of truth is a deception. Devine then defends his own position on the nature of God and religion and argues for a convergence between the concerns of faith and philosophy.




The Treasure of Amelia Island


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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




Key West Revenge


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Set amidst the decadent heat of Key West and the torrid swamps of the Everglades, Key West Revenge follows a band of intelligence officiers as they fight off drug cartels and a corrupt military officers to rescue their old colleague.The action thriller begins in Key West, where retired intelligence officer LP Thomas is kidnapped while on a routine business trip. His captors want far more than ransom; they want his good name. During his abduction, LP is framed for the bombing of a prominent military headquarters in South Florida.His ties with his friends in the intelligence community run deep, and they realize the con being played on them. They set out to rescue LP and clear his reputation from involvement in the terrorist bombing. Led by the stalwart Jim Stillwater, this eclectic band of former and present intelligence officers includes two bombshell gorgeous female operators, Tanya and Morgan, and the wise Colonel Steve Yamoto. As the band of colleagues moves to track down LP and convince the FBI that their friend is innocent, they will be stabbed in the back and betrayed by the corrupt Naval Officer Commander Failstaff. This circle of friends becomes falsely implicated in the military bombing and finds their own lives under threat. To save themselves and their friend, they will have to go incognito and wade into the murky wilderness of the Florida Everglades where LP is being held and used as a pawn between two rival drug cartels. In a rip-roaring, action-filled climax, the book's heroes will engage in an extended battle in the Florida Everglades with drug kingpin El Diablo. Just as the sequence of events in the cypress swamps seems most dire, the FBI has a change of heart and swoops in to aid these intelligence officers in their dogged pursuit of LP. A white-knuckle thriller, Lee A. Sweetapple's Key West Revenge draws on his decades of experience as an intelligence officer combating terrorism and drug trafficking.