Florida A to Z [Paperback]

From Alligator to Zephyrhills, there is more information on Florida packed in this alphabet than you can imagine. Crammed into the 26 letters are almost 200 detailed facts about Florida personalities, history, geography, nature, and culture. This book is fun and accurate all at once.

This Florida alphabet book is packed with almost 200 facts about Florida personalities, history, geography, nature, and culture. Hundreds of photos and drawings illustrate the text written at grade levels 4 through 6. In H, you will learn about the Horse Conch, a marine mollusk whose pink and orange shell was named the state seashell in 1969. In L, read about Love Bugs that appear in Florida spring and fall and bump into cars, leaving a sticky mess. In V, learn about Vizcaya a villa built in 1916 in Miami and Valencia Oranges, which make up about half the Florida orange crop.