Turtle in Paradise
New York : Random House, [2010]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Subjects:
Cousins -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Florida -- Juvenile fiction.
Adventure stories -- Juvenile fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction.
Key West (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Cousins -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Florida -- Juvenile fiction.
Adventure stories -- Juvenile fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction.
Key West (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: 009-013.
ISBN:
9780375836886 (hc)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187, 189).
John Newbery Medal Honor, 2011.
John Newbery Medal Honor, 2011.