2020 Honorable Mention under Best Cover Design and Best Chapter Book categories: Purple Dragonfly Awards:2020 Winner in the New York City Big Book Awards:"…. An endearing and poignant vacation read for young readers."—Kirkus Review, April 16, 2020Chasing their fantasy of finding buried treasure on their first beach vacation, nine-year old Tommy and his older brother Auggie unearth a two-hundred-year-old mystery. After a series of strange mishaps begin to haun...

Tarpon! Book 2 in The Gasparilla Curse Series is a 2021 NYC Big Book Award Winner for best chapter book!Adventure, danger, loss, and forgiveness are at the heart of Bruce Rougraff 's latest young adult novel. In the sequel to his first novel, Doubloon!, Tommy and his family return to southwest Florida to continue the fun, and this time they'll try a little tarpon fishing. The trip is great fun until in the blink of an eye, Tommy finds himself propelled into a strange and terrifying...

Now that Tommy knows the full impact of the cursed Gasparilla coin, he plans to return it and end the curse forever. But he soon realizes that the coin is missing, and his troubles begin anew! In Bruce Rougraff's third young adult novel, the finale of the Gasparilla Curse Trilogy, it takes the help of his brothers, his sister, and their neighbor Ed to try to recover it. Finding the coin becomes more of an adventure than Tommy or his family anticipates. They encounter ruthless criminals, mo...