Turtle in paradise /
Holm, Jennifer L,
Turtle in paradise / by Jennifer L. Holm. - 1st ed. - 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
"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.
Grades 3-5. Ages 9-12.
Newbery Honor, 2011. Booklist Editors' Choice Books for Youth, 2010.
9780375836886 0375836888 9780375936883 0375936882 9780375836909 037583690X
2009019077
Cousins--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Florida--Juvenile fiction.
Depressions--1929--Juvenile fiction.
Key West (Fla.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Juvenile works.
PZ7.H732226 / T87 2010
Turtle in paradise / by Jennifer L. Holm. - 1st ed. - 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
"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.
Grades 3-5. Ages 9-12.
Newbery Honor, 2011. Booklist Editors' Choice Books for Youth, 2010.
9780375836886 0375836888 9780375936883 0375936882 9780375836909 037583690X
2009019077
Cousins--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Florida--Juvenile fiction.
Depressions--1929--Juvenile fiction.
Key West (Fla.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Juvenile works.
PZ7.H732226 / T87 2010