Holm, Jennifer L.      <br/><br/>
Turtle in paradise  
Jennifer L. Holm 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York   Random House,  c2010. 
 - 191 p.   ill. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> 610L 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780375936883 (lib bdg) 9780375836909 (pbk.) 037583690X (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009019077 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cousins<br/>Families--Florida<br/>Depressions--1929<br/>Family life--Florida<br/>Adventure and adventurers<br/>Depressions--1929
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Key West (Fla.)--History--20th century
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<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>jHol   17