More Sunshine State Young Readers Grades 3-5
I'm reading all the Sunshine State Young Reader award nominees before we go back to school (I hope!). It's always so awesome to see the books the committee chose-they're mindful of lots of different things but I love the variety of the kinds of books they choose. The one I read last night is a good example of that-it's called "Overboard!" and it's part of the Survivor Diaries series by Terry Lynn Johnson. This one is the first in the series, I know I'm going to need to order the whole series, because it's great. It's about a boy named Travis who's struggling a bit. He was injured last year in an accident (ok, a dare) at his gym. In the past year of recovery, he's gained weight and feels a bit traumatized. His parents take his family on a whale watching tour near the San Juan Islands and he's learning a lot about whales and wild life when he's plunged into the water. Luckily, the captain's daughter Martina is close ...