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.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Johnny BrightF HOLBook31455000279314Fiction