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Author Holm, Jennifer L.

Title Turtle in paradise / by Jennifer L. Holm.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2010]
©2010

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 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  JF HOLM, J.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Children's Department  J FICTION HOLM    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J HOLM    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Children's Department  J HOLM    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Children's Department  JF HOL    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Children's Department  J FICTION HOLM    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  J HOL    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Children's Department  J FIC HOLM    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  J HOLM    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department  J F HOLM    Check Shelf

Edition 1st ed.
Description 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note "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.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.7 4.0 137063.
Awards Newbery Honor Book, 2011.
Booklist Editors' Choice Books for Youth, 2010.
Audience Grades 3-6 (School Library Journal)
Subject Cousins -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Florida -- Juvenile fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction.
Key West (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Cousins -- Fiction.
Families -- Florida -- Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
Key West (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.
ISBN 9780375836886 (trade)
0375836888 (trade)
9780375936883 (lib bdg)
0375936882 (lib bdg)
9780375836909 (paperback)
037583690X (paperback)
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