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Glencoe Literature is a powerful blend of classic and contemporary literature to engage and motivate your students. Integrated reading, writing and language arts skills instruction address the demands of your curriculum. A full range of assessment tools is designed for flexibility and ease of use. ... Read more

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Five students including a popular overachiever, a self-destructive freshman, a determined African-American, a football player, and a troubled loner, offer a perspective on what modern school society is really like. Reprint. ... Read more

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GOOD BOOK.
Honestly, I just wanted to say this book is just awesome, hands down. YOu can read it anytime without getting bored..

South of Heaven
This book was about high school at the end of the twentieth century. A Largo High there's a program called GOALS, where teachers reach out to the students that try to escape school. It describes several students that attend Largo High and what they do outside of school. This book is great when it came to details.
My favorite character in this book was Christine Younskevicius, everybody calls her YY. She had three close friends that she was always hanging out with. YY was very involved in school, and everybody knew her at Largo High.
I enjoyed reading this book. It was long but worth it. When I was reading it, it felt like I was there watching or listening to what was happening. Those are the kind of books that I personally enjoy reading. This book caught my attention from the very beginning.

Pretty good, pretty accurate
I am a 1993 graduate of Lakewood High School in Pinellas County, Florida -- same county as Largo, with which I was fairly familiar during my three years at Lakewood.South of Heaven was initially appealing simply because I knew (sometimes tangentially, sometimes directly) a few of the people in the book, and because Tom French was a minor celebrity in our high school journalism class.It was therefore many years before I could read it with some equanimity and objectivity.

Ten years down the road, I have no idea if French's picture of high school is still accurate.What I do know is that it was accurate in 1992.French manages to convey well the social balkanization and creeping despair that infected Pinellas County schools in those days.He also seizes quite well upon the social archetypes of those schools, and does an admirable job of portraying them with sympathy despite their many fault.One certainly feels that French is an astute observer of social interactions: he zeros in on the crucial doings of Largo's social interplay, without losing the forest for the trees.

The book gets four stars for two reasons:first, the writing is journalistic rather than novelistic.French doesn't quite lose the "newspaper tone" in South of Heaven; it does not translate so easily from serial to book as did, say, Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down.It's hardly a fatal flaw, just a nagging one.The second shortcoming is French's analysis of what he sees: there is little, and what little there is is simplistic and unconvincing (anyone familiar with the dreary and pointless GOALS program for failing students in Pinellas could hardly advocate throwing more money into that sinkhole).He is much more of a reporter than an editorializer.To his credit, he seems to understand this, and mostly sticks to reporting.

It's a good book, a good read, and a story that approaches in poignance the heights of another classic piece of high school reportage, Friday Night Lights.Tom French is to be congratulated.

I am a graduate of the 1990 class from Largo High School
This is one of the best descriptions of high school life i have ever read... being a part of the class that helped make this book possible was also an incredible experience.

A must-read for every high school teacher
I had the opportunity to hear Thomas French speak at a scholastic journalism convention in October, 1998 where he held the audience of teachers and teenagers spellbound as he recounted the year he spentdocumenting the lives of several students in a Florida high school. Thebook was every bit as powerful as the talk he gave. For every high schoolteacher who has ever felt the frustration with dealing with studentswhosefirst priority is not school, this book offers a special insight into whysome students are the way they are, and why special programs for thesestudents sometimes work and sometimes do not. Thomas French is a PulitzerPrize winning reporter from the St. Petersburg (FL) Times. I highlyrecommend this book. ... Read more

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Provides an overview of Florida history, from pre-history to the present. ... Read more

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Discover the best of the Caribbean--without leaving the States! This guide to the wonders of the delightful and exotic Florida Keys covers the Upper, Middle, and Lower Keys, with information on beaches, parks, water sports, and more. 50 color photos. Color maps. ... Read more

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When Travis, Nish, Sarah, and the rest of the gang pile onto a school bus headed for Florida, the Screech Owls expect a spring break filled with sun, sand, and lots of ice. With luck they may even make it to the peewee tournament final, to be held in the magnificent Ice Palace, home of the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning!

Muck and Mr. Dillinger have planned a fun trip. As well as camping and swimming, they’ll get to go to Disney World. Nish, of course, has bigger ideas. With his new X-ray glasses he bought on the “stupid stop” on the way down, he’s hoping to see a lot more than just tourist attractions.

The only trouble is, Nish ends up seeing too much! Travis wasn’t looking forward to riding the Tower of Terror at the Disney-MGM Studios, but it’s going to take even more courage to face this. The Screech Owls have uncovered a plot to terrorize all of America!

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Exciting
The gang piles onto the bus and heads to Florida. They have the perfect dreams and are hoping to make it to the finals at the Ice Palace home of the Tampa Bay Lightning. The coaches have planned a fun trip as they are going to WDW. Nish ends up seeing to many thigns with his x-ray glasses. The Screech Owls have uncovered a plot to terrorize all of America. Can they stop it in time? ... Read more

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Pensacola, Florida. History of Pensacola, Florida, List of mayors of Pensacola, Florida, Escambia County School District, West Florida Regional Library, University of West Florida, Escambia County, Florida, Escambia Bay Bridge, Escambia High School, Pensacola Beach, Florida, Pensacola Bay, Naval Air Station Pensacola ... Read more