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Turtle in paradise / by Jennifer L. Holm.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Random House, c2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 191 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780375836886 (hc)
  • 0375836888 (hc)
  • 9780375836909 (trade pbk)
  • 037583690X (trade pbk)
  • 9780375893162 (ebook)
  • 0375893164 (ebook)
  • 9780375936883 (lib bdg)
  • 0375936882 (lib bdg)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 22
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.H732226 Tu 2010
Awards:
  • Newbery Honor Book, 2011
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.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library Nash 301 Children's Books Section J FIC HOL J Available 33710001293278

"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jkt. flap.

Author's note includes photographs and information about Key West in the 1930s and some of the real inhabitants that inspired the characters in her novel.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Newbery Honor Book, 2011