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Available
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Publication
New York Random House c2010.
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.
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Awards
Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 2012)
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award (Nominee — 2014)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2013)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2013)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 2013)
Georgia Children's Book Award (Finalist — 2013)
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Children's Fiction — 2013)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2012)
Sasquatch Book Award (Nominee — 2013)
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2013)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2012-2013)
Newbery Medal (Honor Book — 2011)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2013)
Golden Kite Award (Winner — Fiction — 2011)
Oregon Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2013)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2013)
California Young Reader Medal (Nominee — 2014)
West Virginia Children's Choice Book Award (Nominee — 2011-2012)
Iowa Children's Choice Award (Nominee — 2014)
NCSLMA Battle of the Books (Elementary — 2018)
Rhode Island Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2012)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Grades 4-6 — 2012)
IBBY Honour Book (Writing — 2012)
Volunteer State Book Award (Nominee — Primary — 2013)
Cocheco Readers' Award (Winner)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee — 2014)
Texas Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List (Selection — Grades 6-8 — 2022)
Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (Nominee — 2013)
Excellence in Graphic Literature Award (Finalist — 2023)
Delaware Diamonds Award (Nominee — 2024)
South Carolina Book Awards (Nominee — Children's Book Award — 2013)
CCBC Choices (2011)
The Best Children's Books of the Year (Nine to Twelve — 2011)
Children's Favorites Awards (Selection — 2011)
Notable Children's Book (2011)
Teacher Favorites Award (2011)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Kids (Fiction for Older Readers — 2010)
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