Turtle in paradise / by Jennifer L. Holm.
2010
PZ7.H732226 Tu 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Turtle in paradise / by Jennifer L. Holm.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780375936883
0375936882
9780375836886
0375836888
9780375836909 (trade pbk)
037583690X (trade pbk)
0375936882
9780375836886
0375836888
9780375836909 (trade pbk)
037583690X (trade pbk)
Publication Details
New York : Random House, c2010.
Language
English
Description
191 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PZ7.H732226 Tu 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
[Fic]
Summary
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.
Note
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Awards
Newbery Honor, 2011
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