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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call number/section: 1000
subjects: cousins, juvenile fiction, depressions, 1929, families, florida, adventure and adventurers, fiction, family life, spanish language materials, adventure fiction, great depression, 1929-1939, key west (fla.), history, 20th century, juvenile fiction, fiction, action and adventure fiction