Turtle in paradise

Holm, Jennifer L.

Turtle in paradise by Jennifer L. Holm - 1st ed. - New York Random House c2010 - 191 p.

Lexile : 610L Companion: Full of Beans. 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.

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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Cousins--Fiction
Family life--Florida--Fiction
Adventure and adventurers--Fiction
Depressions--1929--Fiction


Key West (Fla.)--History--20th century--Fiction.

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