Title: Turtle in paradise
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.
Subjects: Depressions, Adventure and adventurers, Cousins, History, Family life, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Historical fiction, Families, nyt:chapter-books=2011-02-06, New York Times bestseller
Places: Florida, Key West (Fla.)
Time periods: 1929, 20th century