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.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| A. Blair McPherson | REA HOL | Book | 31458000269269 | Realistic Fiction |