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Holm, Jennifer L.

Turtle in paradise / by Jennifer L. Holm. - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c2010. - 191 p. ; 22 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 that 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.

ISBN: 9780375836886 (hc) 9780375836909 (trade pbk) 9780375893162 (ebook) 9780375936883 (lib bdg)

LCCN: 2009019077

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cousins--Fiction.
Family life--Florida--Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers--Fiction.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Key West (Fla.)--History--20th century--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.H732226 / Tu 2010

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]