Friday, August 15, 2014

Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm

It's a kind of funny book about a girl whose mother works as housekeeper for rich families during The Great Depression. Her mother's new mistress doesn't like children, so Turtle is sent to live with her aunt. Her aunt has a lot of boys, so Turtle has to learn how to get on with them, because even though she's played with boys before, they were always the children of her mother's mistress. One day she discovers that the cranky old woman that Turtle's aunt has her take food to, was, in fact, her grandma! And, Turtle discovers in her grandma's piano, a cigar box with instructions to find a buried pirate's treasure! Will they find it, or will the treasure be lost forever?  --Anita

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