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- ALMA POWELL: Children's Collection
- CENTRAL: Children's Collection (2 copies)
- EASTWOOD: Children's Collection
- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection (6 copies)
- WASHINGTON SQUARE: Children's Collection
Turtle in paradise
Call Number
- J HOLM (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW, WSQ)
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Random House, c2010.
Physical Description
191 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Notes
"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jkt. flap.
Author's note includes photographs and information about Key West in the 1930s and some of the real inhabitants that inspired the characters in her novel.
Subjects
- Cousins > Fiction.
- Family life > Florida > Fiction.
- Adventure and adventurers > Fiction.
- Depressions > 1929 > Fiction.
- Cousins > Juvenile fiction.
- Families > Florida > Juvenile fiction.
- Adventure stories.
- Depressions > 1929 > Juvenile fiction.
- Key West (Fla.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
- Key West (Fla.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.