Turtle in paradise

Title
Turtle in paradise

Personal Author EPSB
Jennifer L. Holm

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.

Year Published
2010

Series
Newbery Award: 2011 honor book.

Physical Description
191 p. ; 22 cm.

Note
Companion: Full of Beans.
 
Author's note includes photographs and information about Key West in the 1930s and some of the real inhabitants who inspired the characters in her novel.

Program Information
Accelerated Reader 3.7.
 
Reading Counts! 3.4.
 
Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.7 4.0 137063.
 
Reading Counts RC 3-5 3.4 8.0 49701.

Awards
Newbery Honor, 2011.

Subject
Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
 
Cousins -- Fiction.
 
Families -- Florida -- Fiction.
 
Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Key West (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Genre
Historical fiction.
 
Action and adventure fiction.

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.

ISBN
9780606238779
 
9780375836886
 
9780375836909
 
9780375936883
 
9780329839017
 
9780329944926
 
9781484499870

Publisher
New York : Random House, c2010.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
A. Blair McPhersonREA HOLBook31458000269269Realistic Fiction