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.