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Turtle in paradise

Call Number

  • J HOLM (CEN, EAS, OSH, 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.

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