Books

Forty-seven percent of third to tenth graders in Florida read below grade level.

Ellen Brown Anderson's novella "The Storm" is set in Key West after a major hurricane and tells a story of domestic life in those frontier days of Florida.

Hear from novelist, restauranteur and Tampa Bay resident Randy Wayne White. We up with him at — where else? — Doc Ford’s Rum Bar & Grille.

On the first and third Tuesday of every month, dozens of volunteers for Gainesville Books to Prisoners gather at the Civic Media Center to sort, package and mail books to prisoners across Florida.

This week on a rebroadcast of The Florida Roundup, we spoke with three authors — novelist Lauren Groff, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and former Florida lawmaker Dick Batchelor about free expression, leadership and discovering civility again.

The program provides a free book a month to kids up to 5 years of age, who are enrolled in Orange, Lake, Flagler, Volusia and Polk counties.

Over the course of a year, author Jen Ruiz visited the lavender fields in the south of France, descended into a volcano in Iceland and saw the sunrise over the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia.

A photograph sparked the idea that led to Author L.L. Kirchner's first novel, "Florida Girls."

This week on The Florida Roundup, we spoke with three authors — novelist Lauren Groff, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and former Florida lawmaker Dick Batchelor about free expression, leadership, and discovery civility again.

Since co-founding "Medical School for Kids," Betty Nguyen and Brandon Pham have authored 25 children’s books on medical specialties in hopes of inspiring the next generation of doctors.

This week on The Florida Roundup, we discussed transportation challenges and possible solutions, guidance on Florida’s measles outbreak, the latest in the effort to restrict books in Florida’s schools, and a few environmental stories from across the state.

As Florida changed its Black history curriculum and removed books from public schools, first-time Tampa City Councilwoman Gwen Henderson pushed back and opened a bookstore.