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
Physical Description
:
191 p. ;
Note
:
"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jkt. flap.
Author's notRe includes photographs and information about Key West in the 1930s and some of the real inhabitants that inspired the characters in her novel.
Program Information
:
Accelerated Reader MG 3.7 4.0 137063
8 +
Awards
:
Newbery Honor, 2011
Subject
:
Cousins -- Fiction.
Family life -- Florida -- Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.
Newberry Honor Book.
Family -- Florida -- Fiction.
Adventure fiction.
Families -- Florida -- Fiction.
Adventure stories.
Family life -- Fiction
Geographic Term
:
Key West (Fla.) -- History -- 20th Century -- 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
:
9780375836886
9780375836909
9780375936883
Publisher
:
New York : Random House, c2010.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| Johnny Bright | F HOL | Book | 31455000279314 | Fiction |