The wetlands of Florida
By: Peggy Sias Lantz and Wendy Hale ; illustrated by Jean Barnes
Contributors: Hale, Wendy, 1954- author; Barnes, Jean, illustrator
Edition: First edition.
Series: The Florida water story -- volume 4
Publisher: Pineapple Press, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sarasota, Florida
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781561647057
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Wetland animals; Juvenile literature; Wetland ecology; Natural history; Wetlands
Description: "Fresh water makes Florida a land of rivers, shining lakes and green leaves, colorful flowers, and many different kinds of natural places. Rain gathers and flows and winds across the land and drains through its sandy soils. Whether it stands on the ground or seeps into it, runs off into rivers or stays in swamps, gathers into ponds or flows in a broad sheet, water makes special places for plants and animals to live. Come explore Florida's watery places, from Lake Okeechobee to the Everglades, an ecosystem unique to Florida."--
Notes: Ages 10-14.

Grades 7 to 8.
Table of contents: title: Water cycle; title: "Old baldy"; title: Florida's seasons; title: Where the water goes; title: Florida's rain barrels; title: The Floridan aquifer; title: Springs; title: Sea cows; title: Rivers; title: Fuel stop; title: The Everglades, river of grass; title: The alligator; title: Do not feed the alligators!; title: Sinkholes; title: Lakes and ponds; title: The osprey and the eagle; title: Wading birds; title: Swamps; title: Marshes and prairies; title: Fire; title: The value of Florida's wetlands.