Turtle in paradise
By: by Jennifer L. Holm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780375836886; 9780375836909; 9780375893162; 9780375936883
Description: 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.
Notes: "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.