Turtle in paradise /
Holm, Jennifer L.
Turtle in paradise / by Jennifer L. Holm. - First edition - New York : Random House, 2011. - 188 pages : illustrtions ; 20 cm.
Companion: Full of Beans. "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 who 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.
9780375836886 (hc) 9780375836909 (trade pbk) 9780375893162 (ebook) 9780375936883 (lib bdg)
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
813.6 H747t 2011
Turtle in paradise / by Jennifer L. Holm. - First edition - New York : Random House, 2011. - 188 pages : illustrtions ; 20 cm.
Companion: Full of Beans. "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 who 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.
9780375836886 (hc) 9780375836909 (trade pbk) 9780375893162 (ebook) 9780375936883 (lib bdg)
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
813.6 H747t 2011