Picked by Sarah Divine

Celebrate Florida Heritage Month (March 15 through April 15) with these YA titles set in the Sunshine State!

  • Paper Towns
    John Green

    One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin 'Q' Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

  • Skink: No Surrender
    Carl Hiaasen

    With the help of an eccentric ex-governor, a teenaged boy searches for his missing cousin in the Florida wilds.

  • Cloaked
    Alex Flinn

    Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.

  • I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader
    Kieran Scott

    As a brunette on the all-blonde cheerleading squad at her new Florida high school, sophomore Annisa Gobrowski tries to fit in with her popular teammates without losing the friendship of Bethany, the only other non-blonde at the school.

  • Abandon
    Meg Cabot

    A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce's life upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld.

  • The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
    Michelle Hodkin

    Seventeen-year-old Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends but, after moving from Rhode Island to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes uncovering something buried in her memory might save her family and her future.

  • Hoot
    Carl Hiaasen

    Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

  • Perfect Couple
    Jennifer Echols

    When yearbook photographer Harper and the star player of the high school football team get voted 'the perfect couple that never was' by their senior class, the unlikely pair start falling for one another. But a handful of obstacles, including Harper's boyfriend, stand in the way of their perfect ending.

  • That Time I Joined the Circus
    J.J. Howard

    After her father's sudden death and a break-up with her best friends, seventeen-year-old Lexi has no choice but to leave New York City seeking her long-absent mother, rumored to be in Florida with a traveling circus, where she just may discover her destiny.

  • Where the Stars Still Shine
    Trish Doller

    Abducted at age five, Callie, now seventeen, has spent her life on the run but when her mother is finally arrested and she is returned to her father in small-town Florida, Callie must find a way to leave her past behind, become part of a family again, and learn that love is more than just a possibility.