Turtle in paradise

Title:

Turtle in paradise

Personal Author EPSB:

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.

ISBN:

9780606238779

9780375836886

9780375836909

9780375936883

9780329839017

9780329944926

9781484499870

Publisher:

New York : Random House, c2010.

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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.