Turtle in paradise /
Holm, Jennifer L.
Turtle in paradise / by Jennifer L. Holm. - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c2010. - 191 p. ; 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.
Newbery Honor, 2011
9780375836886 (hc)
2009019077
Cousins--Fiction.
Family life--Florida--Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers--Fiction.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.
Key West (Fla.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
PZ7.H732226 / Tu 2010
[Fic]
Turtle in paradise / by Jennifer L. Holm. - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c2010. - 191 p. ; 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.
Newbery Honor, 2011
9780375836886 (hc)
2009019077
Cousins--Fiction.
Family life--Florida--Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers--Fiction.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.
Key West (Fla.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
PZ7.H732226 / Tu 2010
[Fic]