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. Reading level: grade 3, 4, and 5.

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.

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Key West (Fla.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
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JUV PZ 7 .H732226 / Tu 2010