The coastlines 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 1
Publisher: Pineapple Press, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sarasota, Florida
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781561647026
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Coastal animals; Juvenile literature; Coastal ecology; Natural history; Coasts
Description: "The edge between land and sea provides many different habitats for special plants and animals to live. Many of them are unable to live anywhere else. Come explore the beaches, mangrove forests, estuaries, salt marshes, and lagoons of Florida's 1,100-mile-long coastline, the longest of any state except Alaska."--
Notes: Ages 10-14.

Grades 7 to 8.
Table of contents: title: Florida's many shorelines; title: The cooling of Florida; title: Barrier islands; title: The beach; title: Beach habitats; title: The lower beach; title: The middle beach; title: The upper beach; title: The dunes; title: Plants of the dunes; title: Behind the dunes; title: Estuaries; title: Salt marshes; title: Lagoons; title: Mangrove forests; title: Protector of land and animals; title: Bird hotels; title: The value of florida's coastline.