| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
191 pages ; 22 cm |
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age Children |
| Series |
Newbery Award: 2011 honor book.
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| Note |
Companion: Full of Beans. |
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"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jkt. flap. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader 3.7 |
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Reading Counts! 3.4 |
| Awards |
Newbery Honor, 2011 |
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Booklist Editors' Choice Books for Youth, 2010. |
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Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011 |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.7 4.0 137063. |
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Reading Counts RC 3-5 3.4 8.0 49701. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer. |
| Subject |
Cousins -- Juvenile fiction.
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Cousins. |
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Families -- Florida -- Juvenile fiction.
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Families. |
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Florida. |
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Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction.
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Depressions. |
| Chronological Term |
1929 |
| Subject |
Key West (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
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Florida -- Key West. |
| Genre/Form |
Action and adventure fiction.
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Fiction.
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History.
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Juvenile works.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Holm, Jennifer L. Turtle in paradise. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2010 (OCoLC)735122407 |
| ISBN |
9780375836886 hardcover |
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0375836888 hardcover |
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9780375836909 trade paperback |
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037583690X trade paperback |
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9780375893162 ebook |
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0375893164 ebook |
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9780375936883 lib bdg |
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0375936882 lib bdg |
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0329839012 |
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9780329839017 |
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9780606238779 |
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0606238778 |
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9780329944926 |
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0329944924 |
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1484499875 |
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9781484499870 |
| Standard No. |
9780375836886 51699 |
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