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Jennifer L. Holm
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Inspired by family stories, two-time Newbery Honor winner and New York Times best-selling author Jennifer L. Holm beautifully blends family lore with America's past in this charming gem of a novel, rich in historical detail, humor, and the unique flavors of Key West.
Life isn't like the movies, and 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple. She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935, and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle's mama gets a job housekeeping for a lady who doesn't like kids, Turtle says goodbye without a tear and heads off to Key West, Florida, to stay with relatives she's never met.
Florida's like nothing Turtle has ever seen. It's hot and strange, full of wild green peeping out between houses, ragtag boy cousins, and secret treasure. Before she knows what's happened, Turtle finds herself coming out of the shell she has spent her life building, and as she does, her world opens up in the most unexpected ways.
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Lala Reyes’ grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl-makers. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala’s possession. The novel opens with the Reyes’ annual car trip - a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels - from Chicago to “the other side”, Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family’s stories, separating the truth from the “healthy lies” that have ricocheted from one generation to the next.
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Love, family, history, and fantasy, Caramelo
- De Michele en 08-07-20
De: Sandra Cisneros
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The Same Stuff as Stars
- De: Katherine Paterson
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
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Katherine Paterson, author of Newbery Medal winners Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved, again displays her storytelling talent in this powerful novel. Eleven-year-old Angel must play the adult when she and her brother are abandoned at their great-grandmother’s house and the old lady proves incapable of caring for them. An emotional tale, this drama teaches the age-old lesson that every person can stand tall when the world lets them down.
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Enchanting
- De BusyMom en 04-02-17
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Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
- A Novel
- De: Ruth Emmie Lang
- Narrado por: Piper Goodeve, Peter Berkrot, Cassandra Campbell, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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Stopping a tornado was the first of many strange events that seem to follow Weylyn from town to town, although he doesn't like to take credit. As amazing as these powers may appear, they tend to manifest themselves at inopportune times and places. From freak storms to trees that appear to grow over night, Weylyn's unique abilities are a curiosity at best and at worst, a danger to himself and the woman he loves. But Mary doesn't care.
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An Accidental Wonder!
- De Brandy Pendergrass en 02-16-18
De: Ruth Emmie Lang
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Tar Baby
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Desiree Coleman
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
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So good that I'm writing my first Audible review!
- De BL en 12-10-11
De: Toni Morrison
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Promise
- A Novel
- De: Minrose Gwin
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart - one Black, one White; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager - fight for their families' survival in this lyrical and powerful novel.
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Mostly Disappointing
- De Anjoli en 06-15-19
De: Minrose Gwin
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Whistling in the Dark
- A Novel
- De: Lesley Kagen
- Narrado por: Lesley Kagen
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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Sally O'Malley made a promise to her daddy before he died. She swore she'd look after her sister, Troo. Keep her safe. But like her Granny always said, actions speak louder than words. And Sally would have to agree with her.
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One of the worst books I've read in a long time
- De Dianne en 08-13-21
De: Lesley Kagen
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Angel Sister
- A Novel
- De: Ann H. Gabhart
- Narrado por: Dianna Dorman
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It is 1936 and Kate Merritt works hard to keep her family together. Her father has slipped into alcoholism, her mother is trying to come to grips with their dire financial situation, and her sisters seem to remain blissfully oblivious to all of it. Kate could never have imagined that a dirty, abandoned little girl named Lorena Birdsong would be just what her family needs.
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Wonderful
- De DWT en 01-06-25
De: Ann H. Gabhart
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Nowhere is a Place
- De: Bernice McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
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Nothing can mend a broken heart quite like family. Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most important, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family's past. Like many family histories, it is fractured and stubbornly reluctant to reveal its secrets. But Sherry is determined to know the full story. In a few days' time, her extended family will gather for a reunion, and Sherry sets off across the country with her mother, Dumpling, to join them.
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A Mother and Daughter Tear. It. Up.
- De Susie en 01-15-14
De: Bernice McFadden
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Each Little Bird That Sings
- De: Deborah Wiles
- Narrado por: Kim Mai Guest
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Ten-year-old Comfort Snowberger has attended 247 funerals. But that's not surprising, considering that her family runs the town funeral home. And even though Great-uncle Edisto keeled over with a heart attack and Great-great-aunt Florentine dropped dead, just like that, six months later, Comfort knows how to deal with loss, or so she thinks.
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Great book
- De Amazon Customer en 08-17-20
De: Deborah Wiles
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Cold Sassy Tree
- De: Olive Ann Burns
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
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The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around fast. If the preacher's wife's petticoat shows, the ladies will make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things take a scandalous turn. That is the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, elopes with Miss Love Simpson, a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee!
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A Feel-Good Story
- De Chrissie en 07-13-13
De: Olive Ann Burns
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
- De: Allan Gurganus
- Narrado por: Barbara McCulloh
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Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and fans alike fell in love with the voice of 99-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heroines in American literature. Lucy married at the turn of the 20th century, when she was 15 and her husband was 50. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood.
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Dated.
- De edie butler en 04-06-21
De: Allan Gurganus
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Wonderland
- De: Barbara O'Connor
- Narrado por: Nina Alvamar
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Mavis Jeeter has never lived in one place long enough to have a real best friend. Mavis wants this home to be permanent - which means finding herself a best friend. Rose Tully doesn't quite fit in, and her closest friend is Mr. Duffy, but he hasn't been himself since his dog died. Henry has run away from home, but he craves kindness and comfort - and doesn't know where to look for them. When Mavis and Rose hatch a scheme to find Mr. Duffy a new dog, their lives and Henry's intersect - and they all come to find friendship in places they never expected.
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Rose and Mavis never gave up trying to cheer up Mr. Duffy.
- De Elizabeth en 10-03-24
De: Barbara O'Connor
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The Hollow Ground
- De: Natalie S. Harnett
- Narrado por: Luci Christian
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The underground mine fires ravaging Pennsylvania coal country have forced 11-year-old Brigid Howley and her family to seek refuge with her estranged grandparents, the formidable Gram and the black lung-stricken Gramp. Tragedy is no stranger to the Howleys, a proud Irish-American clan who takes strange pleasure in the "curse" laid upon them generations earlier by a priest who ran afoul of the Molly Maguires. The weight of this legacy rests heavily on a new generation, when Brigid, already struggling to keep her family together, makes a grisly discovery in a long-abandoned bootleg mine shaft.
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Disfunction makes a good read
- De NHull en 05-30-14
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- Savannah
- 11-23-21
Great Story
New to chapter book readers and adults will love this one and the determined spirit of the little girl within these "pages"
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- Kathryn M. Boney
- 08-15-24
Turtle
It was sad at the end :(
I almost cried it’s to sad I can’t juju
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- Jordan
- 03-04-24
Turtle
I really enjoyed the book. It was very interesting. My favorite part is when turtle and here mother get back together.
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- 12-02-17
Turtle Indeed
I'm 36yo & this story with the narrative cracked me up..its for younger kids but adults will appreciate the dry witty sense of humor..this audio may also cause you some lack of sleep..for its too good not to hear all of it. Many times during the night I had to be careful my laughter didn't wake my husband. Great story. No bad language or content in this story that my own child couldn't hear. I appreciate that very much. Turtle has climbed to the top of my "listen to very often" stack of audios. I'll let you decide where it climbs in your pile ;)
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- Jennifer
- 10-09-12
Delightful, funny, and touching.
Our entire family enjoyed this book while on a long car trip. The author has created wonderful characters who live in a vividly depicted run-down area of Key West in the early 20th century. Turtle is a believable girl, who is a complicated mix of brave and vulnerable. She makes the most of unfortunate circumstances while befriending a crew of cousins she's never met. The book is even more delightful because it is based on the author's grandmother's memories of growing up in Key West when it was a remote outpost instead of a tourist destination (Ernest Hemmingway has a cameo).
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- Gina Davis
- 04-13-18
Great book!! Kids loved it!
My kids listen to this book over and over. It was enjoyable to listen to even as an adult!
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- Vajda
- 09-26-12
Very good book
What made the experience of listening to Turtle in Paradise the most enjoyable?
I read this with my 10 year old daughter for a mother/daughter book club. We both very much enjoyed it.
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- Flyer
- 12-27-19
boy or girl it doesn't matter
one of the best reads of all time An American Tail of a brave little girl
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- Leanne Kelly
- 11-28-19
Turtle and Paradise
This book was anazing.I love how it was so detailed.The best part was when the equation in aunt Minerva night gown. But I give this book 5 stars because it was the best.
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- Tinyla
- 09-02-20
Great read!
We enjoyed EVERY minute of this historical fiction! The reader does a wonderful job as well.
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