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Turtle in paradise / by Jennifer L. Holm.

Holm, Jennifer L., (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780375836886
  • ISBN: 0375836888
  • ISBN: 9780375836909
  • ISBN: 037583690X
  • ISBN: 9780375936883
  • ISBN: 0375936882
  • ISBN: 9780329839017
  • ISBN: 0329839012
  • ISBN: 9780606238779
  • ISBN: 0606238778
  • ISBN: 9780329944926
  • ISBN: 0329944924
  • ISBN: 9781484499870
  • ISBN: 1484499875
  • ISBN: 9781613833780
  • Physical Description: 191 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Publisher and pagination may vary.
Author's note includes photographs and information about Key West in the 1930s and some of the real inhabitants who inspired the characters in her novel.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Target Audience Note:
610L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader 3.7
Reading Counts! 3.4
Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.7 4 137063.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.7 4.0 137063.
Reading Counts RC 3-5 3.4 8.0 49701.
Awards Note:
Newbery Honor, 2011
Booklist Editors' Choice Books for Youth, 2010.
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011

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Subject:
Cousins > Juvenile fiction.
Families > Florida > Juvenile fiction.
Depressions > 1929 > Juvenile fiction.
Key West (Fla.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Action and adventure fiction.
Historical fiction.

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Sneads Ferry Branch Library JUV FIC HOLM (Text) 36015001225958 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Swansboro Branch Library JUV FIC HOLM (Text) 36015000967378 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Albertson Community Library JFIC HOL (Text) 30372101828496 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Alexander Main Library J Holm (Text) 34269001050930 Juvenile Fiction Checked out 07/06/2026
Alleghany Public Library JF HOLM (Text) 80001000890013 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Anderson Creek School Media Center J F Hol (Text) 30492444 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Annie Hubbard McEachern Public Library JF HOLM (Text) 34510800075226 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Ashe County Public Library J HOL (Text) 50503300083260 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Avery County Morrison Public Library JFIC HOL (Text) 31111002620472 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Badin Branch Library J FIC Holm (Text) 31012000077535 Juvenile Fiction Available -
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