Turtle is an eleven year old girl, who is sent to Florida for a couple months to live with a part of her family that she's never met. It takes a little time, but eventually she adjusts to being the only girl living in a small house with her male cousins and Aunt. While in Florida Turtle discovers things about herself and her mothers past. This book was written in such a straighfoward manner that it was refreshing. Though it was kind of predictable in places the personalities of the people who live there as well as the crazy nicknames everyone has for each other make the book very believable. I also thought that Turtle's love-hate relationship with the Shirley Temple character added a whole new dimension to her personality. I would definitely recommend this book to my students.
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