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Turtle in paradise /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Random House, c2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 191 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780375836886 (trade)
  • 0375836888 (trade)
  • 9780375936883 (lib bdg)
  • 0375936882 (lib bdg)
  • 9780375836909 (pbk.)
  • 037583690X (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Turtle in paradise.DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 22
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.H732226 Tu 2010
Contents:
Rotten kids -- Paradise lost -- Lucky as an orphan -- The conch telegraph -- Can you spare a nickel, pal? -- The truth of the matter -- Terry and Pat -- A big, happy family -- The diaper gang knows -- The man of the house -- Ladies who lunch -- Hard times -- Believing in monsters -- Lying, stealing, no-good kids -- A dream come true -- The rescue party -- A Hollywood ending -- Paradise found.
Awards:
  • Newbery Honor, 2011
  • Booklist Editors' Choice Books for Youth, 2010.
  • Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Copy number Status Barcode
JF JF Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction J HOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 34517000463193

"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.

Rotten kids -- Paradise lost -- Lucky as an orphan -- The conch telegraph -- Can you spare a nickel, pal? -- The truth of the matter -- Terry and Pat -- A big, happy family -- The diaper gang knows -- The man of the house -- Ladies who lunch -- Hard times -- Believing in monsters -- Lying, stealing, no-good kids -- A dream come true -- The rescue party -- A Hollywood ending -- Paradise found.

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.

Grades 3-6 (School Library Journal)

Middle School

610 Lexile

Accelerated Reader 3.7

Reading Counts! 3.4

Newbery Honor, 2011

Booklist Editors' Choice Books for Youth, 2010.

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011

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